Schizophrenic Quotes - page 3

The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will. (Bob Colacello)
I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both. View quote
Carla Gugino
I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic. View quote
Evan Ross
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing. View quote
Gary Clark, Jr.
I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. View quote
Jenny Eclair
I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it. View quote
Johnny Galecki
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. View quote
Josh Holloway
My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black. View quote
Amber Le Bon
It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am. View quote
Michael Buble
When people hear that I'm a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. 'Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?' 'How can my son overcome his dyslexia?' 'What could have caused my best friend to become schizophrenic?' When I can't give satisfying answers, they look disappointed - and I feel embarrassed. View quote
Sebastian Seung
The Europeans are ... making a choice that will inevitably give Europe more geopolitical clout-at the expense of American primacy. ... And the impetus will come not just from Europe's new ambition, which will gather slowly, but also from America's domestic politics and its schizophrenic reaction to the rise of Europe. (Charles A. Kupchan)
These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States. How can you say this is part of U.S. adherence to international law and U.N. resolutions? The result is a kind of schizophrenic picture of the United States. View quote
Edward Said
The schizophrenic is probably having exactly the same experience as the magician but has no context in which to understand it. View quote
Alan Moore
The schizophrenic has had their window kicked in, the magician has got a body of law – probably most of it bollocks, it doesn't matter. The magician's got a system into which the alien information that will be pouring into him or her will be fitted. View quote
Alan Moore
A writer is a controlled schizophrenic. View quote
Edward Albee
In order to have a couple of shamans on hand in your group, you're willing to put up with the occasional third cousin who's schizophrenic. View quote
Robert Sapolsky
There is a need for this subtype - but not too many. The critical thing with schizotypal shamanism is, it is not uncontrolled the way it is in the schizophrenic. View quote
Robert Sapolsky
Schizophrenia--its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." View quote
Gregory Bateson
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms. View quote
Gregory Bateson
You must get away from the real thing because the real thing will limit your acting and cripple you. To think of your own mother's death each time you want to cry onstage is schizophrenic and sick. View quote
Stella Adler
[In response to having being referred to as schizophrenic] Well, that is clearly not my mental illness; I am Bipolar-II - which is the new gladiator sandal! Schizophrenia is, of course, hearing voices- not doing voices. (Maria Bamford)
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two. View quote
Jodie Foster
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. View quote
Nicolas Cage
Western man is schizophrenic. View quote
J. B. Priestley
I'm a schizophrenic writer. View quote
Lynn Nottage