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"When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."

"Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!"

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

"Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few."

"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."

"Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more."

"It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document."
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"I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency."

"As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I'm very comfortable with what I'm doing - working on projects I'm proud of."

"But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older."

"I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film."

"The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'"

"I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on."

"I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show."

"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life."

"You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk."
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