40 of the Dumbest Celebrity Quotes You Won’t Believe Were Spoken

We all find ourselves saying dumb things now and then. It’s easy for a slip of the tongue to occur and find yourself shaking your head in embarrassment or trying to explain something that makes no sense. But it’s not just the average Joe who can mess up their words. Celebrities are often caught on camera saying stupid things that put their PR team into a spin. The dumbest celebrity quotes show that not every famous person is as smart and articulate as you might think. 

The dumbest celebrity quotes cover a wide range of subjects and will leave you scratching your head about what you’ve just read. Some are celebrities just mixing up their words while others are weird statements that make no sense. Everyone from movie stars to athletes has been caught out by their words, with 40 of the funniest quotes below. 

40 of the Dumbest Celebrity Quotes You Won’t Believe Were Spoken

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1. “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost an important part of your life.” – Brooke Shields 

2. “I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I don’t like to think.” – Kanye West

3. “And now the sequence of events, in no particular order.” – Dan Rather

4. “I’ve never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that’s very popular out there in Africa.” – Britney Spears

5. “God created the sun, the stars, the heavens, and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve eating apples. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.” – Carl Everett

6. “No, no, I didn’t go to England, I went to London.” – Paris Hilton

7. “I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.” – Shaquille O’Neal when asked if he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece.

8. “I’ve got taste. It’s inbred in me.” – David Hasselhoff

9. “The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” – Joe Theismann

10. “If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society.” – Jaden Smith

11. “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” – Dan Quayle

12. “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 Carey

13. “Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex.” – Charles Barkley

14. “So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?” – Christina Aguilera

15. “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman… An open-handed slap is justified if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning. If a woman is a *&%#!, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it.” – Sean Connery

16. “You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco.” – Justin Bieber

17. “I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man.” – Charlie Sheen

18. “Now I can say that I still haven’t had an abortion, but I wish I had.” – Lena Dunham

19. “I guess I’m gonna fade into Bolivian.” – Mike Tyson

20. “I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat.” – Elizabeth Hurley

21. “Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I’m going through.” – R. Kelly

22. “Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it’s tuna but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea’.” – Jessica Simpson

23. “That’s the problem! You let someone lick your ass, and look what happens. Don’t let anyone lick your ass!” – Leah Remini

24. “It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.” – Axl Rose

25. “We are going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” – Jason Kidd

26. “As soon as I hear there is a famous penis out there, I am the first person to ravenously devour it online.” – Seth Rogen 

27. “I thought Europe was a country.” – Kellie Pickler

28. “First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovah’s Witness.” – Geri Halliwell

29. “I love them. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is.” – Sienna Miller

30. “I mean, if a female Dalai Lama come, then she must be very attractive. Otherwise not much use.” – Dalai Lama

31. “I enjoy the company of cattle. I really enjoy knowing them, running my hand over them.” – Russell Crowe

32. “I love Brazillian waxes. They ought to be made compulsory at 15, don’t you think?” – Victoria Beckham

33. “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” – Richard Nixon

34. “People go to college to find out who they are as a person… I kind of already know that so it would be like I’d be taking a step back or something.” – Lindsay Lohan

35. “Rarely is the question asked: ‘Is our children learning?'” – George W Bush

36. “I’m not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say ‘A quarter to 2’ I wouldn’t know. Why can’t you just say 2:30?” – Snookie

37. “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No.” – Craig T. Nelson

38. “I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don’t know into what religion yet.” – David Beckham

39. “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney

40. “I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She’s 18. And I was like, that’s how I feel.” – Kim Khardasian on her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries