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A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?
Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.
I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.
Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.
I'm too neurotic to ever feel good. If I ever felt good, I think something horrible would happen.
The funny thing is, I look at these magazines that make me so insecure and neurotic, but I'm in them!
Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.
Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.
Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.
I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
I'm not fond of crowds. I'm no jittery neurotic, but I don't really want to be surrounded by a lot of people if I have a choice.
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
So my idea of neurotic is spending too much time trying to correct a wrong. When I feel that I'm doing that, then I snap out of it.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
I wasn't super emo when I was younger but I'm very neurotic, my mood swings really heavily so when I'm upset I go away from everyone.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.
I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.
I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.
A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in 'Cop.'
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
I'd probably be one of these terribly over-protective parents whose children become a neurotic wreck because they've never been exposed to real life.
It's amazing how a simple brief phone call can pick up the spirits of the most dejected hamster, the most stressed goldfish and the most neurotic cat.