It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

— David Levithan

When I started it [non for profit], I thought, I'm not smart enough to do this. I had no experience in management, no experience…

— Michael J. Fox

I recognize that many physicists are smarter than I am-most of them theoretical physicists. A lot of smart people have gone into theoretical physics,…

— Linus Pauling

The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom…

— James Surowiecki

So much interviewing these days is about the presenter - I?m a clever boy, I?m going to be smart with people; or it?s a…

— Michael Parkinson

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent…

— James Surowiecki

Obviously you want to be smart enough to take other people's advice and take that into consideration, and obviously try to surround yourself with…

— Chelsea Handler

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

— Craig Ferguson

Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it…

— Rowan Atkinson

I guess I'm part of the art house, but we really have to shake up our ideas, because we're kind of self-parodying ourselves. We…

— Peter Mullan

There's a rich history at Westboro of parodying pop culture. The thing about pop culture is that it gives us a shared language. We…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I fell into presenting after doing about a decade of parody shows of presenter-based shows, and a lot of it was me parodying a…

— Angus Deayton

I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

— Julian Barratt

The 'Room On Fire' tour was us parodying ourselves. It was almost comical when I look back at it. We were really living off…

— Fab Moretti

If you told me thirty years ago that people would be parodying documentary films, I never would have believed it. It wasn't clear that…

— Errol Morris