Greta Gerwig Quotes

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.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

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

I think everybody's nuts.

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.

People think I'm nuts.

That crack-brained harlequin and semi-lunatic, George Francis Train! He is as destitute of principle as he is of sense, and is fast gravitating toward a lunatic asylum. He may be of use in drawing an audience; but so would a kangaroo, a gorilla, or a hippopotamus.

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

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

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I've been called crazy many times before.

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

All artists are crazy.

I've always been a lunatic.

There are some loony people in this world!

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

There is always going to be depth and layers to people and that's what interests me in a character: when there is some problem to overcome, when there is a complication to understand in a person.