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"I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it."
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"We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!"

"The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something."

"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research."

"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

"Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt."

"Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful."

"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity."

"Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition."

"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."
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"So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered."

"Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world."

"I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes."

"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."

"I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well."

"There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from."

"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it."
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