Neurotic Quotes

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure.

My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection.

The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

I've become a guy who's like a complaining, whining neurotic.

When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do not grudge our clients the right to the final say. It is their money.

In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.

I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.