A Quote by Ted McGinley

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ted McGinley

Quote Topics

Always Genius Hollywood Overused Said Way Word

Quote Author

Ted McGinley
American - Actor
Born: May 30, 1958

I think 'genius' is an overused word.

Steven Wilson

Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly was - genius is an overused word - but he clearly did have something of the genius about him.

Bettany Hughes

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

Otto Weininger

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Lupita Nyong'o

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Fritz Kreisler

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

John Lennon

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

Anais Nin

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Ron Howard

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

Romany Malco

I've always worked hard to create my own style. Nobody sounds like me. I've heard them call me 'legendary.' That feels pretty good... though the word is overused these days.

Billy Paul

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

Alan Rickman

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

Alan Rickman

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Neal Asher

I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

Alexander Pope

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

Kanye West

Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river.

Sissy Spacek

A Quote by Ted McGinley

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors