Brilliant Quotes - Page 13

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

[My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved."

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

I said Revolver is my favorite The Beatles album, but only because it came to my head and it's a brilliant one. But they're all pretty brilliant. There's variations, but they're all brilliant, and it just depends on if they're very brilliant, or just a bit brilliant. It changes.

Gillian [Jacobs] is brilliant, and it was Lena Dunham that recommended her. I didn't see her in the part, but Lena told me that Gillian can do anything. It turned out to be true.

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.