Willard Wigan Quotes

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

Most geniuses are weird.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out.

I feel like most creative people are total freaks.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.

It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy.

I think it would be fun to walk around in Bill Murray's mind for a while.

My point of view has always been a bit more offbeat.

I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.

There is only a very thin line which separates a genius from the eccentric.

Boruc is nuts. He is a very good friend of mine, and so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying he's a nutter. He really is crazy.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

That's why I sleep alone. My hair is curly, and that's why I have my ponytail. I look like a madman, like something out of a horror movie.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

I'm surrounded by freaks. Am I weirder than the rest of them? Ultimately I've learned to pride myself on being quirky.