Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I've been called crazy many times before.

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

I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.

I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

There are some loony people in this world!

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.

I was a very strange child.

That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.

People think I'm nuts.

I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.