I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I don't feel neurotic. So it's better for the family if I'm working. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux. — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge… Normality is the Great… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
That's the nice thing about being a vegetarian. You don't have to be neurotic. Selective omnivores have to be neurotic. Personally, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I've been neurotic in my life; I've had neurotic relationships with men. What else is new? But you really have to learn… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
You wake up but not really. In the bedroom you grew up in. It's the only place on this entire planet that… — Peter Wentz Copy Share Image
“The red indicator light just came on. I'm looking at the run-time error report. It's like a mathematically precise way of saying,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
With acting, it's all about internalizing the character for me and doing all the preparation you can. So the day you first… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Still . . . my mom may have been trying to get me not to worry. I am “neurotic.” “Neurotic” means “I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
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… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
As long as you're neurotic and crazy, he's great. But once he solves all your problems, he becomes the problem. — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social. — Pernell Roberts Copy Share Image
Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part. — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing. — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
