Being Quote by Laura Dern

It's something I've seen a lot of: these tortured geniuses, or self-proclaimed tortured geniuses, who kind of take their damage out on others. I…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

— Sharon Stone

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

— Gertrude Stein

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits…

— Wayne Dyer

When I lived in New York, I was still ascribing to this idea of being a somewhat tortured artist. I thought that would make…

— Greta Lee

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

— Truman Capote

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

— Cynthia Heimel

There are geniuses, savants; I'm not one of them. I work hard, I see where popular culture's going to move, but I've gotta keep…

— Jimmy Iovine

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all…

— Bill Watterson

The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our…

— Seth Godin

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

— Charles Horton Cooley

It's daunting; it's daunting doing something that you are not brilliant at in front of millions of people. But you can't sit back and…

— Stacey Dooley