Neurotic Quotes

All currency is neurotic currency.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.

Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself.

Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.

I have all my ex-girlfriends lumped into one big girlfriend I called M.A.N.D.Y.: My, Another Neurotic Disappointment? Yes.

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.

When you are calm, quiet and sensitive then you can expand. But when you are irritated, phobic, fearful, insensitive, and neurotic, you can't achieve anything.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.