Bill Paxton Quotes

I've been insane from a very early age.

There's something messed up with my brain.

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

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

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

I've been told I'm out of my mind since I was 11.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

To do that job you need to be mentally disturbed.

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

I was a psycho in college.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

To think is to be sick.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

They've lost their minds.

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.