Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

I've been called crazy many times before.

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

We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form 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 don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

People think I'm totally crackers.

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.'

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.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

I proved to my own satisfaction that I am madder than I think.

I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Lunatics with money in America are never mad–just eccentric.