Intelligent celebrities: A dumb as box of hammers counterpoint

Who are you calling intelligent, and who are you calling dumb, OP?

Well, John Lithgow did go to Harvard.

If you're basing your assessment on traditional education, then Damon, Natalie Portman, David Duchovny all come to mind (Ivy grads). Streep, James Woods, Dolph Lundgren have a lot of high-end education.

Both Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck come across affected and trying to sound intelligent in interviews. And of course A-Rod was always Dim-Rod to me and Jimmy Fallon is another dim bulb.

I'd say that most if not all the people mentioned in R3 are entitled to a full tuition refund.

Yale graduate David Hyde Pierce is extremely cultured. Speaks fluent French.

As dumb as a box of... Kardashians.

Jodi Foster, Steve Martin

^^^ Jodie

Bradley Cooper is allegedly quite intelligent

Glenda Jackson

Alan Alda

Jane Fonda

Jennifer Lopez is intelligent?

JLo does not seem intelligent to me. She seems vapid and vane, but intelligent? No.

“Vapid and vane”? Pot, meet kettle.

Yes r2, he did. But where did John Lithgrow go?

R16, you moron, we've all seen JLo in the public light for decades at this point in order to come to your conclusions about her. You have no clue who I am at all. She's not your bestie, weirdo.

Lisa Kudrow

Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien

Jlo is a dumb puta...

Courtney Love is highly intelligent, but it seems that her natural thought patterns are very non-linear, which can make her hard to follow for a lot of people as she rambles from topic to topic. Still, she is smart, quick-witted, and a bibliophile—much more intelligent than the average celebrity. Her intellect seems to get overlooked given her reputation in a number of other arenas.

Anjelica Huston sounds experienced, worldly and intelligent in interviews.

Faith Ford has an IQ if 170.

Don't look now, but r18 had some sort of meltdown.

Jodie Foster

[quote] [R16], you moron, we've all seen JLo in the public light for decades at this point in order to come to your conclusions about her. You have no clue who I am at all. She's not your bestie, weirdo.

R16 was commenting on your misspelling, you idiot.

Ashton Kutcher

Seth MacFarlane

Vanessa Redgrave, Helem Mirren

Peter Weller (formerly of "Robocop" and "Buckaroo Bonzai etc", has a masters degree as well as a PhD in art history, and is a professor of history at Syracuse university.

James May, of "Top Gear" and "The Grand Tour", has a Doctorate of Arts (PhD) in music.

Brian May, guitar player for Queen, has a PhD in Astrophysics.

Mayim Bialik has a PhD in Neuroscience, but like the Mays, is smart enough to make some big bucks in the entertainment field, instead of spending her life in academia.

John Waters, Bill Maher, Sharon Stone

Jennifer Lopez?

Britney is a fifth-grade graduate.

Jim Parsons

Danica “Winnie Copper” McKellar has some sort of high end education. They had her on something about child stars years ago with Blossom. Also, Suzanne Somers blond son on Step by Step is a college professor.

Isn’t Glenn Medeiros a headmaster/principal at a school in Hawaii?

Bette Midler is actually quite smart and intellectually curious. She just gets in her own way too much of the time.

Lee Remick and I had a mutual friend. Our friend once asked her why she was so smart (which she was.) Lee answered that her mother always told her pretty wasn't enough.

The Sedaris siblings, David Bowie, Sarah Silverman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosie O’Donnell, Trevor Noah, Craig Ferguson, all the Monty Python ones, the band Queen too, Joan Rivers – actually, I think a lot of comedians are smart (being quick-witted requires a quick, astute brain, imo – also having a sophisticated sense of humor requires one)

Ashton Kutcher was accepted at both MIT and Purdue but lost his scholarships when he broke into his high school as a prank.

Some other surprises at link (30 smartest celebrities in Hollywood)

Milla Jovovich, Heather Langenkamp, Judge Judy

Whatever inherent intellect they have is usually mitigated by their narcissistic myopia.

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress and inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today's WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.

It’s Hedley!

Two bright ladies, Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Hedy Lamarr

Quentin Tarantino has an IQ of 160 which is the same as Stephen Hawking. Fine. But James 'MAGA' Woods rates 24 points higher than them both?! Sorry, I’m gonna need some verification on that one.

Faith Ford can't act worth shit. I'll need proof of her high IQ.

80s B-list action hero Dolph Lundgren has a masters degree in chemical engineering, and had a Fulbright Scholarship to work on another advanced degree at MIT... but he had an affair with Grace Jones and left academia for a career in showbiz.

I've always been vaguely surprised that he hasn't chucked showbiz and gone back to a career in science, but if he'd rather do a bit of acting and direct straight-to-video action movies, well that's what he'd rather do.

Tina Fey

Bob Costas.

Fran Lebowitz, Killer Mike, Lady Gaga, I'm sure there are others.

Jennifer Lopez is not educated but has a lot of street smarts and business savvy. She doesn't strike me as a dumb or stupid person.

[quote] Sorry, I’m gonna need some verification on that one.

Verificatia of gray matter!

Sir Michael Philip Jagger

r36 Danica McKellar graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She co-authored a scholarly mathematics paper and has written four popular books about mathematics.

R6 I love that just by speaking a second language you can be thought of being extremely smart in America. No matter how large it grows to be, the US will always to be this:

Mayim Bialik

[quote]I love that just by speaking a second language you can be thought of being extremely smart in America. No matter how large it grows to be, the US will always to be this:

Oh, [italic]dear,[/italic] and oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]

Here you are making fun of Americans' linguistic skills, and yet English is clearly beyond your own mastery.

Hedy Lamarr, glamorous international movie star and esteemed inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame. She co-invented and patented spread-spectrum technology, the grandfather of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Without Hedy, they’d be no Grindr.

Sharon Stone? Lol

Sharon is not exactly a moron, R60. Not sure what your derision is coming from.

[quote]Joan Rivers – actually, I think a lot of comedians are smart (being quick-witted requires a quick, astute brain, imo – also having a sophisticated sense of humor requires one)

This is true. Comedians and comedy writers are almost always well above average intelligence. And you can always tell how smart their audience is, by how they react to jokes that are perceived to be offensive but are really just a layer or two too sophisticated for some people.

Geena Davis

[quote] Hedy Lamarr, glamorous international movie star and esteemed inductee to the National Inventors Hall of Fame

It’s Hedley!

Glenn Heady—RIP. We hardly knew her. Smart lass.

Claire Danes

Sharon Stone is intelligent, she's just a bit nuts—smart with a side of kook. Courtney Love is the same way.

[quote] Claire Danes

OMG! Was that Claire Danes?

Kal Penn

Tyra Banks

What about Gwyneth? She’s soooo punk rock!

I mean, since we’re including Sharon Stone…

Intelligent Celebrities is an oxymoron.

Conservatives are actual morons. They live in their own fantasy world.

R71 Conservatives or celebrities?

R69 oh yes GP who from Spence with famous rich connected parents still could not get into a single college - brillliant!!

R45 I fully believe Sigourney could successfully run a country. Competent hyper-smart lesbian vibes.

According to testing, Frank Lampard Jr. is quite intelligent. He studied Latin at school, got into good universities (but didn’t go), all that.

He is evidently and at least slightly more well-spoken than most professional footballers. That though is rather a steep sliding curve.