Genius quotes

“Being genius is not enough, it takes courage to change people's hearts.”
Dimiter D. Marinov - Oleg

“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”
Man Ray

“I am interested in failures — the homosexual genius, the suicidal genius, the fantasist genius, all these people are heroes to me.”
Ken Russell

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
Jonathan Pryce - Elliot Carver

- Miss Honey: Matilda Wormwood is a very sweet girl, and very bright.
- Trunchbull: A "brightchild"?
- Miss Honey: Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head.
- Trunchbull: So can a calculator.
Embeth Davidtz - Miss Honey
Pam Ferris - Trunchbull

“Wow! You're a genius. You're like the Ernest Hemingway of bullshit.”
Steve Martin - Davis

“Once a great inventor, always a great inventor. There is always something else.”
Keegan-Michael Key - Gustafson

“Brilliance beckons! Genius awaits!”
Forest Whitaker - Jeronicus

“I’m not a freakin’ genie here!”
Thomas Middleditch - Ed Whittle

“Creativity and psychosis often go hand in hand. Or, for that matter, genius and madness.”
Samantha Soule - Miss Jean Blake

“I am not crazy, my mother had me tested.”
Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper

“Sheldon doesn’t know when he’s being mean because the part of his brain that should know is getting a wedgie from the rest of his brain.”
Melissa Rauch - Bernadette Rostenkowski

“I’m exceedingly smart. I graduated college at fourteen. While my brother was getting an STD, I was getting a Ph.D.”
Jim Parsons - Sheldon Cooper

“A shower. A bird. All these things that are absolutely ordinary, he made extraordinary.”
Janet Leigh On Alfred Hitchcock

“They always underestimate the mastermind.”
Charlayne Woodard - Mrs. Price

“From the land beyond beyond... from the world past hope and fear... I bid you Genie, now appear.”
Torin Thatcher - Sokurah the Magician

“Silent Bob is an electrical genius. He won the science fair in eighth grade by turning his mom's vibrator into a CD player using some chicken wire and shit. The motherfucker's like MacGyver. No, the motherfucker's better than MacGyver.”
Jason Mewes - Jay

- Eugene Martone: Listen, I know I'm not Robert Johnson, I...
- Willie Brown: No, you ain’t! You ain't even the beginning of a pimple on the "Late Great" Robert Johnson's ass! You might have a little bit of lightning in you, but you're missing everything else.
Ralph Macchio - Eugene Martone
Joe Seneca - Willie Brown

“- Max Zorin: That's rather neat, don't you think?
- James Bond: Brilliant. I'm almost speechless with admiration.
- Max Zorin: Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius.
- James Bond: Herr Doktor Mortner would be proud of his creation.”

Christopher Walken - Max Zorin
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“She's not normal, but if Einstein can ride a bike so can she.”

Chris Evans - Frank Adler

“That obstinate, suspicious, egocentric, maddening and lovable genius of a problemchild.”
Mary Pickford On Sir Charlie Chaplin

“- Mitch Weaver: Revenge! I'm telling you, we should open a revenge-for-hire business.
- Sam McKenna: I never heard of a revenge-for-hire business.
- Mitch Weaver: Exactly, we'd be the first! With every genius business idea, there's gotta be a first. Like, like the guy who first thought of delivering pizza to people's houses. Or, uh, the guy who...” (continue)(continue reading)
Norm MacDonald - Mitch Weaver
Artie Lange - Sam McKenna

“It's psychotic! People keep coming up with new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional...”

Craig T. Nelson - Bob Parr

“- Will Hunting: I look at a piano, I see a bunch of keys, three pedals, and a box of wood. Beethoven, Mozart, they saw it, they could just play. I couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway, and I can't play the piano.
- Skylar: But you can do my o-chem paper in under an hour.
- Will Hunting: Right. Well, I mean...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Damon - Will Hunting
Minnie Driver - Skylar

“The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.”
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.