# The remarkably stupid celebrity quote thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982 "2009-02-15T19:53:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/1 "2009-02-15T19:53:14Z")
You can post either of two sorts of posts in this thread. 1. Quotes from remarkably stupid celebrities which are characteristic or emblematic or whateveric of their stupidity; or… 2. Remarkably stupid quotations from celebrities who may not ordinarily be morons. And let’s keep it to actors, singers, & the like, mkay? There’s no need to bring Bush Jr. or Palin into it, as we are not in GD. I’ll start with some low-hanging fruit, [Jenny McCarthy](http://www.pr.com/article/1076), whose continued existence is either proof there is no God or proof that there is one who hates us: > [@](#): > > [PR.com](http://PR.com): Why are there more vaccines? > > Jenny McCarthy: I’m so glad you said that (laughs)! Why are there?! Why do we need a Chickenpox vaccine? I had the Chickenpox. I got to stay home from school. > > [PR.com](http://PR.com): I agree with you. If it’s not something that is potentially fatal… > > Jenny McCarthy: Right. That’s exactly what I’ll [bring up] on my next round of publicity. I can’t say to moms, “Don’t vaccinate,” because it’s crazy. I know we need them. But how about this everyone… make a good choice. You select your vaccines. They [now] put the influenza shot in the vaccine schedules in the first year. Do they need it? ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/2 "2009-02-15T20:15:07Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’ll start with some low-hanging fruit, [Jenny McCarthy](http://www.pr.com/article/1076), whose continued existence is either proof there is no God or proof that there is one who hates us: For all the stupid shit Jenny McCarthy has said in the last couple of years, that’s probably one of the lest offensive quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/3 "2009-02-15T20:16:57Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > For all the stupid shit Jenny McCarthy has said in the last couple of years, that’s probably one of the lest offensive quotes. I was soliticing comments notable for their stupidity, not their offensiveness. Otherwise I’d simply have linked to Howard Stern’s website. (Assuming he has one. I simply refuse to Google him.) ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/4 "2009-02-15T23:35:27Z")
Oh, I’ve definitely heard worse from Jenny. I remember a video someone posted here awhile back where she said her son “died in front of [her] for two minutes” and that he was cured of autism with a special diet. Alright, lady. Anyway, I’m not sure of the veracity of this one, but it made me laugh. From the one and only Jessica Simpson: I’m not anorexic. I’m from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I’ve never heard of one. And that includes me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/5 "2009-02-16T02:50:44Z")
Speaking of McCarthys, here’s **Chuck Berry** with some dietary advice: > [@Chuck Berry](#): > > I eat meat daily. I’m not Jewish. I’m not Arabic. What’s the kind of person that doesn’t eat meat? That’s right–I’m not a vegetarian. I’m not a McCarthyite. What’s that fella’s name? Paul McCartney? That’s right. I’m not him. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/6 "2009-02-16T02:53:01Z")
Jews and Arabs don’t eat meat? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/7 "2009-02-16T02:55:56Z")
_ **Bring it on!** _ -Former President G.W.Bush I don’t mean to turn this into a political pissing contest, but that was a remarkable statement. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/8 "2009-02-16T03:04:28Z")
The Jessica Simpson quote asking if Chicken of the Sea tuna was really chicken and not tuna. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/9 "2009-02-16T03:26:13Z")
She isn’t exactly a celebrity, but my friends and I have been laughing about this incessantly for the past few weeks. After calling elephants “preposterous and majestic”, Jade in Cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model said: “Shooting with an elephant, it reminds me of an ancient dinosaur. 'Cause they are in the dinosaur family.” ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/10 "2009-02-16T03:37:19Z")
I find it difficult watching her in anything these days due to the stupidity in the following statement. \*\*Toni Collette \*\*being interviewed on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope, where they are discussing her movie Japanese Story which was shot in Newman (a Western Australian mining town)… > [@](#): > > Andrew Denton: You talked about missing the light of Australia. Where you shot this film was up in the Pilbara. We’ve got some footage. This is some of the country Toni was in. > > FOOTAGE FROM FILM PLAYS COURTESY OF PALACE FILMS > > MAN: You could fry a lizard in this heat. (To Japanese man) Welcome to Newman. Would you like to have lunch or tour the mine first? (Overlooking mine site) The original hill 185m above plain level. The final pit will be about 325m below plain level. It’s 5.5km long and not quite 1.5km wide. > > Andrew Denton: And that was the size of the caravan you were demanding. > > Toni Collette: I wish. > > Andrew Denton: That’s Mount Newman, is it? > > Toni Collette: That’s a disgusting mine where they actually shot a huge explosion while we were there and I just felt sick about it. Let’s all rape the earth. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/11 "2009-02-16T04:47:17Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Jews and Arabs don’t eat meat? 😕 They don’t eat \*pork \*which is a type of meat and what Berry was referring to. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/12 "2009-02-16T05:03:22Z")
There’s the quote attributed to Demi Moore about the changes to the plot in her movie of THE SCARLET LETTER. “(They shouldn’t be very controversial because) not that many people have read the book.” ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/13 "2009-02-16T12:56:51Z")
> [@chacoguy420](#): > > _ **Bring it on!** _ -Former President G.W.Bush > > I don’t mean to turn this into a political pissing contest Oh of course you do… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/14 "2009-02-16T14:55:23Z")
I’m pretty sure it was Brook Shields who was in Chicago for one reason or another, and the reporter quoted her as saying, “Wow! I didn’t know Chicago was on an ocean!” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/15 "2009-02-16T15:04:08Z")
I know the OP asked for no GWB quotes, but I think this one qualifies since it really isn’t political in any way, just plain stupid. On a visit to Brazil during his first term, he was quoted as saying to the Brazilian president “You have black people down here too?” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/16 "2009-02-16T15:11:57Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I know the OP asked for no GWB quotes, but I think this one qualifies since it really isn’t political in any way, just plain stupid. On a visit to Brazil during his first term, he was quoted as saying to the Brazilian president “You have black people down here too?” [Undetermined, but probably not.](http://www.snopes.com/quotes/brazil.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/17 "2009-02-16T15:17:35Z")
Well, not really stupid, but kinda dumb: Boxer Vinnie Paz once dissed another fighter saying that he “wasn’t the sharpest marble in the drawer.” And there’s this [bizarre exchange](http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/13/lkl.00.html) between Sally Jessy Raphael and Larry King concerning her whereabouts on 9-11-01, toward the end of the interview. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/18 "2009-02-16T18:16:39Z")
Dizzie Gillespie: I think that be-bop will help bring about world peace. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/19 "2009-02-16T20:01:14Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Dizzie Gillespie: I think that be-bop will help bring about world peace. Hey, remember that all-out war with Russia we didn’t have? You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982/20 "2009-02-16T20:36:19Z")
Kristin Stewart, the star of that new Tiger Beat vampyre movie (Twilight), being interviewed by David Letterman about her upcoming European press tour. K: I’m etiher going to be in London or Berlin, but I decided that wherever I am, I’m going to drive to Russia and it’s going to be awesome. DL: Well, let’s hope for Berlin Audience cackles K _not getting it_: Yeah…uhh, I’m hoping for London actually…but it’s going to be awesome, yeah. David Letterman’s “holy shit this girl is dumb” look was kind of priceless. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-remarkably-stupid-celebrity-quote-thread/485982.md?page=2)