Wyatt Cenac Quotes

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

I had been a hurricane all my life. And that was, of course, because I was bipolar and did not know it. And I was - you know, the mania took control. When you're on stage and when you're performing, you're heightened, and it's an extreme.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I'm a nut, but not just a nut.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

There's a big difference between sanity and insanity.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

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

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

I knew I was a manic depressive when I was 13 or 14, and I loved it. I always told people what I had, and I was always cresting on a manic wave. I used it, willingly and happily, and it was an extraordinary experience. When I got hit with the depressive side - Boom! - yes, it was horrible and unendurable, but that's part of the story.

I can tell you I have dealt with mania my whole life.

I feel what I feel. If I wanna cry, I'm gonna cry - regardless of who watches me.

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.