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Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up. -- Patty Duke
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. -- Arthur Miller
You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. -- Frank Langella
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. -- Lake Bell
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special. -- Clive Barker
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work. -- Anna Silk
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. -- Oscar Isaac
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
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
I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor. -- Joanne Woodward
I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become? -- Colm Toibin
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part. -- Mae Whitman
Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It's a 'Matrix' of you, so you're communicating with people all the time using Scientology. -- Jason Beghe
I'm a huge fan of 'The Odd Couple,' yes, and any comparisons to Tony Randall and or Jack Lemmon are completely welcome. I kind of try to channel those guys, and then add my own neuroses, too. -- David Alan Basche
When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor. -- John Rhys-Davies
As actors, for the most part, there's that neuroses most of us possess where, in a day of watching, this character get killed off of this show, and that character get killed off of that show - one never knows. -- Rick Hoffman
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
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
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. -- Fred Durst
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety. -- Scott Stossel
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do. -- Lizzy Caplan
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
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games. -- Ayelet Waldman
The neuroses parody the virtues. -- Mason Cooley
I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up -- Patty Duke
our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses. -- Fran Drescher
The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses. -- Florence King
Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses. -- Tom Hiddleston
Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses. -- Camille Paglia
That's the one thing I have over any twenty-one-year-old: a proud history of accumulated neuroses. That's the game in which I'm da man. -- Ray Romano
We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love. -- Patrick Ness
the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality. -- Elsa Maxwell
I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer. -- Rachel Weisz
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no matter what, while offering loftier explanations. -- Kurt Vonnegut
When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence. -- Henry Miller
I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses. -- Jim Shaw
Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door. -- Sigmund Freud
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other. -- Katha Pollitt
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days." -- Fleur Adcock
However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. -- Carl Jung
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are. -- Charles R. Johnson

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