Genius quotes

“- Terry Leather: You know what scares me more? Living and dying with nothing to show for it. You know how old Mozart was when he composed his first minuet?
- Dave Shilling: No.
- Terry Leather: Five. Five! A fucking minuet!”
Jason Statham - Terry Leather
Daniel Mays - Dave Shilling

“- Denny: Ray really is a genius, Frenchy.
- Frenchy: Compared to you, this chair is a genius, Denny.”
Michael Rapaport - Denny
Tracey Ullman - Frenchy

“- Al Burnett: Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.
- Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And what does he do?
- Al Burnett: Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.”
Patrick Warburton - Al Burnett
Kevin Harrington - Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell

- Franny: What are you?
- Stripes: I don't know.
- Tucker: We can rule out "genius".
Whoopi Goldberg - Franny
Frankie Muniz - Stripes
Dustin Hoffman - Tucker

“- Drill Sergeant: Gump! What's your sole purpose in this army?
- Forrest Gump: To do whatever you tell me, drill sergeant!
- Drill Sergeant: God damn it, Gump! You're a god damn genius! This is the most outstanding answer I have ever heard. You must have a goddamn I.Q. of 160. You are goddamn gifted, Private Gump.”
Afemo Omilami - Drill Sergeant
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Moira: Arnold tells me you're a genius.
- Romulus: At what?
- Moira: Music.
- Romulus: Oh - is that all?
- Moira: Why, is there more?
Romulus: Well, I can put a lit match in my mouth, and when the lights are out I look like a jack-o-lantern.”
Ann Magnuson - Moira
Samuel L. Jackson - Romulus

“- James West: For four long years I've been chasing the animal responsible for the massacre at New Liberty. I hear tell that's you.
- Dr. Arliss Loveless: I am not an animal! I am a visionary, I am a genius, and now I am angry!”
Will Smith - James West
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Dr. Arliss Loveless

“- Madame Giry: [about the Phantom] He's a genius. He's an architect and designer, he's a composer and magician... a genius, monsieur!
- Raoul: But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness.”
Miranda Richardson - Madame Giry
Patrick Wilson - Raoul

“Oh, look honey, our boy's a genius! He's rigged a pulley system so he can eat sausage and work on his stupid drawings.”
Rip Torn - Jim Brody

“- Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol: Did you guys know all this stuff about him when you decided to name me? That he was paranoid, suicidal, friendless, depressed?
- Ashoke: You forgot to mention that he was also a genius.”

Kal Penn - Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol
Irrfan Khan - Ashoke

“Follow your own genius to where it leads without regard for the apparent needs of the world at large, which, in fact, has no needs as such, but, rather, moments of exhaustion in which it is incapable of prejudice. We can only hope to collide with these moments of unselfconsciousness. This divine fatigue.”
Thomas Jay Ryan - Henry Fool

“The only thing I have of value, is this... Jimi Hendrix's tooth, there was a fight in a pub down Oxford Street, someone planked him, and I picked it up. I knew he was a genius even then.”

Stephen Rea - Tony Costello

“I'm a genius, not an engineer.”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Lenny Brown: I'm making money so fast over at Max's, they can't keep track of it. Everybody in town thinks I'm a firecracker. And even after all this, my own wife still thinks I'm a bum!
- Linda Brown: I think you're a genius. I just don't want you to feel like you're on a treadmill... having to make more and more money to pay for things we...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Woods - Lenny Brown
Sean Young - Linda Brown

“If there's no room at the Hotel Genius, I'll take a room at the Hotel Imbecile.”
Roberto Benigni - Driver - Rome

“- Lt. Brutus: He's a genius, huh?
- David Langley: That's what they tell me.
- Lt. Brutus: Well, he looks like a fruitcake to me.”

Richard Gant - Lt. Brutus
Peter MacNicol - David Langley

“You're insane, but you might also be brilliant.”

Danny DeVito - George Shapiro

“- Samantha Belmont: So you guys are geniuses?
- Audrey White: Yeah - or we thought we were.
- Samantha Belmont: We had a couple of geniuses at school... they're both wimps.”
Kelli Maroney - Samantha Belmont
Mary Woronov - Audrey White

“This is hockey, ok? It's not rocket surgery.”
Mike Myers - Donnie Shulzhoffer

“- Miss Birdseye: Your cousin looks like a genius, my dear.
- Olive Chancellor: It's only a distant cousin. He's a lawyer from Mississippi, he left his mother and his sisters behind and he's come to try to make his living in New York. He's not in sympathy, I'm afraid.”

Jessica Tandy - Miss Birdseye
Vanessa Redgrave - Olive Chancellor

“I don't know you. I don't know your work. But I think you are a genius. And I am never wrong about that.”

Martin Hayter Short - Neil Sussman

“- Sol Robeson: This is insanity, Max.
- Maximillian Cohen: Or maybe it's genius.”
Mark Margolis - Sol Robeson
Sean Gullette - Maximillian Cohen

“- Linda Ash: My father's brother was supposed to be a genius. I never met him, but everybody said he was brilliant.
- Lenny Weinrib: Really? What did he do?
- Linda Ash: He was a serial rapist. He spent his whole life in jail, but if he had gone straight, he might have been very good in math.”
Mira Sorvino - Linda Ash
Woody Allen - Lenny

“- Mary: I was tired of submerging my identity to a very brilliant, dominating man. He's a genius.
- Isaac: He was a genius, Helen's a genius and Dennis is a genius. You know a lot of geniuses, y'know. You should meet some stupid people once in a while, y'know, you could learn something.”

Diane Keaton - Mary
Woody Allen - Isaac

“- Norma Rae: Who's this? Dylan Thomas?
- Reuben Warshowsky: He was a poet. A genius and a drunk.”
Sally Field - Norma Rae
Ron Leibman - Reuben Warshowsky