Brilliant Quotes

Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.

I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible.

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Frost isn’t exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I believe that the experience of childhood is irretrievable. All that remains, for any of us, is a headful of brilliant frozen moments, already dangerously distorted by the wisdoms of maturity.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.