Quotes About Genius

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Very first thing in the morning, I spew some rough genius directly on to the laptop. Then I have coffee and rewrite for three hours.

In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Even though Da Vinci was a genius, it's important to remember he was just a man.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.