Oscar Wilde Quotes

Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

he's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something

Humor comes from self-confidence.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

I always surprise myself with my voice. A lot of people don't get it, and they're like, 'You can't sing. Stop. What are you doing?' And it's funny to hear a lot people say I sing in falsetto because it's not falsetto - that's my voice.