Robert Solow Quotes

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

If you went crazy, would you know it?

I think it is important to make sure that I have my real life as well, because Hollywood can certainly seem like an alternate reality sometimes.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

... a paranoid person with delusions.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

It's kind of weird to meet people that grew up in films who are still in touch with reality.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation.

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

I know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.