I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

I know that I am intelligent because I know that I know nothing.

I love the paranormal because there every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Because of my faith and my imagination I was able to enjoy my childhood even though it was tough.

People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

In the beginning we had a great deal of freedom and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

Suffering it turns out demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone extinguished because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena and we are seeing it very very plainly.

The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.

I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

I know how fiction matters to me because if I want to express myself I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men so I thought I would be a writer instead.

A man at work making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.