If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness
Anna Freud
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient`s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
Robert A. Heinlein
I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that`s really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hou...
Jon Stewart
I`m very neurotic. My mind doesn`t switch off. Are you haunted by social faux pas you might have committed in the past? This happens to me 10 times a day. I wish I could be a little bit more cool, just let things go and not worry so much. I spend my whole...
Mackenzie Crook
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
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
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
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
I`d like to play a real cold, mean mass murderer. Some cruel, hard-bitten women, like the roles Glenn Close gets, just to show that I am capable of not being vulnerable and not being fragile on screen. (on being typecast as fragile or neurotic characters)
Dianne Wiest
I think people are used to people in show business having a lot of hubris. I think I have a normal amount of self-loathing but because I`m in show business it`s considered self-deprecation. In normal life I would just be considered your average neurotic. ...
Jon Stewart
I can honestly say this industry hasn`t made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They`re meant to make you feel good, not give you more hang-ups.
Stella McCartney
About being killed off on Star Trek: "I begged the producers not to kill me. They thought I was just being this neurotic little actress hoping to have a part to come back to, but I really meant it. I didn`t want to see six great years end that way".
Terry Farrell
I`m not really an exhibitionist. I`m drawn to the outrageous stuff because it`s fun, not because it`s some deep compulsion. I`m no tortured, anger-stoked, deeply neurotic comic. Just a pretty low-key normal guy. A, "Hey, the glass is half-full", kind of a...
Will Ferrell
All the most successful people these 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
I would love to make a movie for very neurotic children. But then perhaps, I`ve already done that. I`ve shown my films at children`s birthday parties. They just love them, like Punch and Judy shows.
John Waters
I`ve been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like Cinderella in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in Cop (1988). Age has nothing to do with being the kind of actress who relies not on magnetic personality, but on disa...
Lesley Warren
I`m fairly competent 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 ch...
Tim Robbins
Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can`t I for once play that on stage? -to the producers of the stage version of "Angels in America" while auditioning for the p...
Jason Isaacs
The inner conflict is what makes the spin so much fun, what makes it more colorful. I actually can`t imagine playing someone who wasn`t neurotic.
Tea Leoni
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille
Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek!
Rene Auberjonois
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