#neurotic

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic. ↗

— Bridget Fonda

#afraid #being #close #get #i

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#america #considered #dwell #heads #keep

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#confounded #days #me #neurotic #normal

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#deep #fans #just #needy #nerds

And as a character, what I found very inspiring about playing Dharma, especially at that time, is that the women on television were more neurotic than they were free. And I thought, this is a rare bird and this is unique on television and I think it's really refreshing. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#bird #character #dharma #especially #found

And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#i #know #made #neurotic #out

Moses freed the Jews. Lincoln freed the slaves. I freed the neurotics. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#i #jews #lincoln #moses #neurotics

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

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

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#bad #happened #life #little #make