Joan Allen Quotes

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

... the work of lunatics.

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Paranoia is dangerous for individuals and for nations as it gives rise to irrational behavior.

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

He had delusions of adequacy.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

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

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

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

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.