Brilliant Quotes

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me." I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

A lot of people believe you only need a vision. This is simply not correct. You need brilliant execution every day. It's about attention to all the details of go to market.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody. I put him above Einstein and everybody else.

Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

There was one rumor that I saw in a magazine saying I was pregnant. I thought that was brilliant and it still crops up now. But it's definitely not true. I can promise you that.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.