Neurotic Quotes
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I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
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Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective people.
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I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.
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I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.
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To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
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Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.
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Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
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As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
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Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.
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You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.
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Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.
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Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
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To be neurotic is to spend one’s life perpetually replacing one worry with the next.
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It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.
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Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
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Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son's bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don't feel like I'm depressed anymore. There's nothing to be depressed about when you've got that.
