Burgess Meredith Quotes

I'm the wacky one. Wacky. Wacky.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

I've never had any problem with crazy people. I like crazy people; I probably am a crazy person myself.

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

People think I'm nuts.

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

Lunatics with money in America are never mad–just eccentric.

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

The more crazy a person is, the more interesting the person is.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.

That's a sure sign someone is going crazy - when he refers to himself in the third person, talks in low tones, and walks around wearing shades all day!

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

She's as nutty as squirrel poo.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

I'm worried he's going to ... do something crazy." "He lives in a hole in the ground, dresses funny, and occasionally eats his assistants," Eve said. "Define crazy.

We of the craft are all crazy.