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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

I had to fight the intellectual label when I started in television, because, first of all, it's not going to help you commercially, and also, it wasn't particularly true of me. I mean, if anybody thought I was an intellectual, they probably had never really seen one.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

I'm an intellectual.

I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.