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"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
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"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
"The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise."
"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."
"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
"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."
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
"Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk."
"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."
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