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"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
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"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
"Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius."
"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"
"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."
"It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down."
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know."
"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."
"I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong."
"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."
"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."
"If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen."
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