#schizophrenic

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#been #i #interested #limiting #myself

On Christmas. "Santa Claus represents God on assistance," said Clyde. "Santa Claus is a negative-idealed god, the pagan god of material worship," Leon stated. "Christmas means the rebirth, regeneration. Some people have Christmas every day. The Christmas tree stands up and either the wife trims it or they trim it together with righteous-idealed sexual intercourse. Or the husband prays to God through his Christmas tree and trims his bodily Christmas tree. Christ-mast; the mast of Christ, the upstanding penis—that's what it means to me." "Santa Claus is a good symbolization for Christmas," said Joseph. "Department stores, shopping, the coming of the New Year. Christmas means better business in the stores. ↗

— Milton Rokeach

#psychoanalysis #santa-claus #schizophrenics #through-the-looking-glass #business

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#asks #because #career #dream #films

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters. ↗

— Zach Braff

#characters #conversation #get #i #i write

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#between #conventions #crowd #different #entirely

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#different #different way #i #schizophrenic #seeing

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#praying #said #schizophrenic #talk #talks

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#because #even #hand #i #inherently

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#dive #either #inside #lying #say

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #mix #much #schizophrenic #slob