Mark Rydell Quotes

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

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

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George W. Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. ...

I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.

My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.

I hear voices in my mind and you're worried that you're the freak,” he laughed.

He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

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

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

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

It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.