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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

In Brooklyn, all the kids call me the 'Willy Wonka of the Hood.'

I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

It's not every actor that can play a genius.

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

Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.