Genius Quotes
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
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I never said I was a genius.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
