I really do think we overestimate the intelligence of our celebrities. Just because they live these seemingly wonderful, glamorous lives, we then go and bestow the gift of intelligence on them just because they are actors.
Yes, they are actors. Their day job is acting. They act smart and therefore we gullibly believe it to be true. For goodness sakes, hardly any of them have a university or college degree yet they aspire to and attain positions with the United Nations just because they put glasses on and acted all serious. That’s where Kevin Rudd has gone wrong. He shouldn’t have gone the whole politician route to get a seat on a UN committee, he just should have become an actor.
It’s actress Kate Winslet whose got me all riled up. Take this little gem that popped out of her mouth last week when she joined a PETA campaign against (I assume) foie gras.
“No one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese abused and killed to make it.” No shit Sherlock. A gold medal to Ms Winslet for stating the obvious.
You know who I’m really sick of. Bloody Bono. He goes around all pious and judgey and stop the wars and feed the people and hand clapping, but he has doesn’t pay tax in his native country Ireland. You see Ireland gave all these artsy (therefore according to the theory–intelligent) people tax breaks until 2006 and when they cut it out U2 moved their accounts to a Dutch tax haven. How patriotic and hypocritical of a man who likes to tell us all what we should be doing. No Bono, I’m too busy paying bloody tax to give any more money to third world countries.
So to prove my point I have compiled a Dumbarse List. It’s incomplete and I’m sure the celebrities will oblige by giving me some more smart quotes in the next few weeks or so.
Top Five Dumbarse Things Actors Say
- “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” Brooke Einstein Shields (actress and philosopher)
- “Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” Mariah Caring Carey (singer, actress and idiot)
- “I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, an the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliche of myself.” Keanu WTF Reeves (actor and goose)
- “I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” Arnold Californians OKaaaaay Schwarzenegger (actor, Governor of California and Rhodes Scholar)
- “I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.” Tara Enough Said Reid (actress? and Nobel Prize winner)
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