Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I'm a compulsive everything.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

I'm kind of OCD.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

I will make myself sick on films, just because you want everything to be right. I can't sleep if something hasn't been done or is out of place.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

I'm super OCD, so everything is clean.

I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

I'm a nail biter and have been my whole life.

Successful comedians are just as neurotic as I am.

I can't stop myself from finding information that makes me mad and writing about it.

When I am stressed I pluck my beard, leaving bald patches.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

When I was a kid, I was very much a perfectionist, and I had a bunch of different compulsions.