Al McGuire Quotes

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.

I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

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

Eccentricity is usually owned by middle-class and upper-class people. If you are working class and eccentric, then you're just mad.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards?Of course, but it's not in your best interest to complain. If you're paranoid and people are looking at you funny it's best to let it pass. Psychotic people have an uncanny knack for making their own worst dreams come true. Depressing things happen to depressed people way beyond what you would expect from random distribution.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

We're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know.

The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

They think I'm crazy and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.

& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint

If you put a label on yourself, people will pigeonhole you.

I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

As women, we're always in negotiation with how we're being perceived versus how we feel.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different