#paranoid

- "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. ↗

— Iain Banks

#cynical #dialogue #paranoid #cynicism

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

#between #day #developed #every #every day

The Academy is paranoid about its image. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#academy #image #paranoid

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. ↗

— Colin Firth

#another #associate #i #loser #one time

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

— Thom Yorke

#i #know #made #neurotic #out

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#cruise #fraught #heroic #i #just

When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anything #because #day #did #differently

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. ↗

— Andy Grove

#complacency #failure #only #paranoid #success

I've had paranoid panic attacks. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#had #i #panic #paranoid

I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#i #joke #paranoid #paula #people