Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

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.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.