So, you think you are not smart enough? Don’t worry because sometimes you appear smarter if you just keep your mouth shut. Here are a few celebrities who perhaps wish they hadn’t opened their mouths so wide and tried to act so smart.

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.” — Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest

“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but t cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” — Singer Mariah Carey

“Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” — Hollywood actor Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.” — Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” — Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

“I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.” — Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents

“That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I’m just the one to do it.” — A US congressional candidate in Texas

“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.” — John Wayne

“Half this game is 90 per cent mental.” — Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

“We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”

“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” — Ex-vice president of US Al Gore

“It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another.” — US president George Bush

“The word ‘genius’ isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” — Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports analyst

“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”

— Former US president Bill Clinton