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

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

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.

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

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've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.