Dan Gilroy Quotes

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time.

I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I'm a psychopath, but I don't have a problem with that.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Half of what creates psychopaths is genetic, but the other half is conditioning.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties.

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

Mr. [Muhammad Ali] Jinnah is a psychopathic case.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.