#neurotic

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. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#builds #castle #collects #lives #man

We're all controlled neurotics. ↗

— Harry Reasoner

#neurotics

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#am #changed #confidence #could #criticism

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#build #castles #cleans #live #mother

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#both #characters #first #i #i am

People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life.' It's not true. 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. ↗

— John Stamos

#away #curtain #go #great #great life

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. ↗

— John Stamos

#away #curtain #i #insecure #just

I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

#clothes #cute #diet #every #fit

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#exactly #fantasy #his #mark #neurotic