Ugo Betti Quotes

I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.