Lynda Barry Quotes

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

As a kid, I felt really weird.

Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself.

I'm a fairly neurotic person.

I know I look crazy, but I am not!

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I've been called crazy many times before.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

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

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

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

I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

Everyone who knows me knows that I am a wickedly mad person.

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.