Professional Idiot Quotes

“The more you knew and understood about the world, the more aware you were that it’s a cruel and shitty place. Ignorance really is bliss.”
― Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“A couple months after school started that year, I just plain stopped going to see the Maje. I remember coming home one day and checking the answering machine in my bedroom. The first message was from the Maje. He was waiting for me to come over. He sounded feeble and desperate: "Steve, where are you? I need you? Are you coming? Please . . ." I deleted it. The next message was also from the Maje and said pretty much the same thing. Delete. There must have been a dozen messages on that machine from the Maje, all begging me, pleading with me, to come help him. I deleted every single one of them. To this day, I have no idea what happened to the Maje, no idea if he ever got that cataract surgery. That's how our relationship ended. It still makes me feel horrible to think about now: I just deleted the Maje.”
― Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“When we were working on Jackass and I'd be traveling in the same bus, car, or van with Johnny Knoxville on road trips, he'd sometimes stick sedative pills in my food in the hope that they'd shut me up so he could enjoy some peace and quiet. Never once did it work. Each time, I think he was truly amazed at the doses of downers that failed to quiet me down.”
― Stephen "Steve-O" Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“We have free will to make any choice we desire in this life, but our choices have consequences that we can't escape. Karma-it is a bitch.”
― Stephen Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“The most seemingly hopeless alcoholics and addicts are the ones who have the greatest chance of getting sober, staying sober, and being happy about it. In fact, in some ways, hopelessness is an addict’s only hope, because until you surrender to the idea that you have no power over alcohol and/or drugs, you’re going to keep finding excuses, justifications, and reasons to get loaded again.”
― Stephen Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“We have free will to make any choice we desire in this life”
― Stephen Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“knowledge and wisdom were more of a curse than a gift. The more you knew and understood about the world”
― Stephen Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir

“If I was going to survive in the entertainment world I needed to be able to keep some safe distance between my work as Steve-O, professional idiot, and my life as Steve Glover, amateur idiot working to stay sober.”
― Stephen Glover, Professional Idiot: A Memoir