John Carpenter Quotes

Revelation is where all crazy people end up. It's the last stop on the nutso express.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin?

The thing about crazy people; they don't know they are crazy, that's what make them crazy.

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

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

I loved that people loved my dad. He never said no to an autograph but didn't make fame a "thing" or act any differently. And it was beautiful to have that support from his fan base when I started to study acting.

First sign of madness, talking to your own head.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind.

But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up the assumed role of insanity.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.