Schizophrenic Quotes

• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Actors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Different, Fiction, Crowds

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• The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

  John R. Talbott

  Mother, Philosophy, Crazy

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• We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

  Mira Bartok

  Children, Thinking, Secret

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

  Elyn Saks

  People, Schizophrenia, Please

  "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.

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• I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

  Alexis Korner

  Play, Has Beens, Dominant

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• America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of the viable America, the America that is connected to its own economy, where there is a plausible future for the people born into it.

  David Simon

  Country, Block, Two

  "David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'". www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2013.

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• It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

  Andy Partridge

  Hands, Avant Garde, Stones

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• I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.

  Josh Holloway

  Reading, Who I Am, Sometimes

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• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  Zach Braff

  Writing, Character, Play

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• I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.

  Chester Brown

  Mom, Reading, Fiction

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• Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Personality

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• 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

  Art, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Splits, Waking

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• Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

  Bruce Campbell

  Lying, Character, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

  Griffin Dunne

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

  Don Van Vliet

  Mean, Sids, Kind

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• Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.

  Atom Egoyan

  Dream, Independent, Careers

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.

  Stephen Mansfield

  Religious, Leader, Principles

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• I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.

  Lester Bangs

  Hands, Violent

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

  Ray Combs

  Thinking, Argument, Persons

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• I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

  Lauryn Hill

  Unstable, Knows, Emotionally Unstable

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Science, Order

  Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5

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• If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

  Thomas Szasz

  God, Madness, Schizophrenia

  The Second Sin (1973) "Schizophrenia"

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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