AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
I remember playing John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, very sick, neurotic, screwed-up guy. You know what? There's a part of me there, too, and you explore that.
There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.
it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.
It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.
If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case — is to find someone whose insanity dovetails with your own.
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer.
The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.
I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.
He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up.
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him to speak. 'The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. Now for vexation, and exasperation, and endless trouble!
The heart and the mind, what an enigma.
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.
Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it.
Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.
The monsters in my head are scared of love.
Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
