I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

‘He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia'

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

He thought he could make intelligent films for intelligent people. This is a concept largely ignored in Hollywood, these days, the producers of the Stanley Shapiro/Ross Hunter cadre, who make movies as intellectually demanding as a Giant Golden Book, and who seemingly visualize their audiences as microcephalics fit only to salivate over the constantly-imminent deflowering of Doris Day, or the shade of puce in a Jean Louis gown.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

Hayek possessed a towering intellect. At the same time, his intelligence was as much brittle as it was powerful.

The Intellectual is someone who meddles in what does not concern him.

...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as “a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows”, he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

From Camus’ notebooks … “an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.