Pointless and Confusing Quotes That Celebrities Blurted Out While Having Brain Farts
If you try to understand some of these, you might end up losing some brain cells.
Some celebrities can turn a simple quote into a full-blown headline, and not always for the right reasons.
This roundup looks at a string of off-the-cuff remarks from famous names, from athletes and actors to pop stars and reality TV regulars. The comments range from awkward to baffling, and once they were out in public, there was no taking them back.
By the end, it is easy to see why these quotes stuck around for all the wrong reasons.
1. Carl Everett
"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."
Wikipedia2. Shaquille O’Neal
Reporter: "Did you visit the Parthenon during your trip to Greece?" Shaquille O’Neal: "I can’t really remember the names of the clubs we went to."
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3. Kanye West
"I actually don't like thinking. I think people believe I like to think a lot. But I don't. I do not like to think at all."
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4. Britney Spears
"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."
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5. Paris Hilton
"No, no, I didn’t go to England; I went to London."
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Things only got stranger from there.
6. Jaden Smith
"If everybody in the world dropped out of school, we would have a much more intelligent society."
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7. Christina Aguilera
"So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
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8. Jessica Simpson
"Is this chicken or is this fish? I know it’s tuna, but it says ‘Chicken of the Sea.’"
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Some of these quotes aged badly almost immediately.
Also, Justin Timberlake asking a court to stop a DUI video from going public is a wild kind of “brain fart.”
9. Brooke Shields
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost an important part of your life."
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10. Justin Bieber
When asked what political party he’d support if he were old enough to vote, Bieber responded: "I’m not sure about the parties. But whatever they have in Korea, that’s bad."
11. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Asked whether he supported gay marriage, Arnold replied, "No, I think gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman."
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By now, the list had fully leaned into chaos.
12. Kellie Pickler
"I thought Europe was a country."
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13. Mike Tyson
"I guess I'm gonna fade into oblivion."
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14. Dalai Lama
"I mean, if a female Dalai Lama comes, then she must be very attractive. Otherwise, not much use."
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15. Sienna Miller
"I love them. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is."
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16. Kim Kardashian
Kim on her 72-day marriage to Kris Humphries: "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 about who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel."
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Some quotes are unforgettable for all the wrong reasons.
For more baffling celebrity chaos, check out the BAFTAs advocate who refused to apologize after shouting a racial slur at Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo.
