J. B. Priestley Quotes

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

The public is schizophrenic.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I lived a dual life, and when my dual life exploded, I began to feel much happier.

The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.

One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled stirrings.

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

You'd probably think I'm schizophrenic if you looked in my closet.

I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

I don't really have a realistic life. Anyway, I am a schizophrenic so there two persons in me. Because I am the person I put on for the public and the person that I am really . . . deep inside me. So I have to cover it all up with . . . glamour and all that bullshit . . . make-up . . . glamour, dresses, color, etc., etc. . . . trying to hide a very . . . fragile person, really . . . very vulnerable to attack.

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

When one is working out a problem ... life becomes duality. One's ego transacts the ordinary routine of things, as if the mind had an upper and lower story and the regular performance of the day's duties moved and motivated on the upper floor, while down below the all-absorbing problem toils silently, forcefully, toward its solution.