Reggie Miller Quotes

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

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

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

[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.

Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out. The locks lose their powers. The guards go to sleep. The passwords fail.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I was an emotional basket case.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

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

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

Control your life through insanity.