Tom Conti Quotes

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

It has long been known that if you want to see me turn into a raging, snarling beast, then all you have to do is use any combination of the words 'chill out,' 'chilling,' or - my maximum red rag - 'chillax.'

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

Packing is always a nightmare.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

I hate a mess.

I like to be as positive and as peaceful as possible, but reality says, you know, sometimes you get mad, sometimes you get antsy, sometimes you get aggravated.

Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

You're driving me NORMAL!

Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.

It doesn't take much to make me angry.

I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.

Winter makes me want to rage.

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.