#neuroses

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artists #create #enormous #enough #fears

I haven’t got time to be neurotic,” he had heard Helen say once; and the words had made him go weak with anger. He had thought it was the most stupid and reactionary remark he ever heard in his life; but was it any more stupid than the sneering thrust he had made in reply: “Time! You haven’t got the imagination! ↗

— Charles Jackson

#anger

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolutely nothing #anxieties #complement #else #i

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. ↗

— James Dean

#express #great #great need #logical #logical way

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. ↗

— Frank Langella

#because #neuroses #spite #start #them

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#ask #behind #feel #important #important questions

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#attracts #certainly #characters #get #haven

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. ↗

— Lake Bell

#am #feign #i #i am #i think

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up. ↗

— Patty Duke

#i #neuroses #sure #up #want