Quotes of Psycho - somelinesforyou

“ There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know. ”

- John Dryden

“ A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made. ”

- Luis Bunuel

“ Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Roses are red, Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect. ”

- Brian Molko

“ I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it. ”

- Billie Joe Armstrong

“ He wasn't paranoid, they really were after him. ”

- Epitaph

“ Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ”

- R. D. Laing

“ Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who says 'Yes.' In a democracy, something's wrong here. ”

- Richard Gere

“ Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying, and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic? ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman. ”

- Tim Robbins

“ Although a madman, Norton wrote letters to Abraham Lincoln and Queen Victoria which they took seriously. ”

- Kerry Thornley

“ There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. ”

- John Dryden

“ Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ”

- Samuel Richardson

“ It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. ”

- Colin Firth

“ You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it. ”

- Lou Gerstner

“ A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form. ”

- Richard Corliss

“ Even a paranoid has some real enemies. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'. ”

- Graham Swift

“ Western man is schizophrenic. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ The Academy is paranoid about its image. ”

- Roger Ebert

“ My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ”

- Martha Beck

“ Even paranoids have real enemies. ”

- Delmore Schwartz

“ The tiny madman in his padded cell. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Every time you walk into a room, it's, like, is there a booger hanging out? Is there a wrinkle here, a gray hair there? It makes you psycho. ”

- Mark McGrath

“ I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting. ”

- Gus Van Sant

“ Calumny is only the noise of madmen. ”

- Diogenes of Sinope
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