Madness quotes

“Your mother is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He's merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river. With the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and... findin' nothin' that he wants to do. I mean nothing.”
Dennis Hopper - Father

“- Alan Parrish: Where's Sir Sav-A-Lot?
- Carl: Monroe and Elm!
- Alan Parrish: The Episcopal Church.
- Carl: No, it's not a church anymore. Now it's a Speedy Burger. Or at least it was. I don't know what's left of it. People in this town are goin' loopy.”
Robin Williams - Alan Parrish
David Alan Grier - Carl Bentley

“Three years ago... a high school teacher got obsessed with a female student... he went psycho! He's been in a maximumsecurity prision until three days ago.”
Shawn Driscoll - Officer Will

“I've got 48 hours off from the world, man. I'm gonna blow steam out my head like a screaming kettle.”
John Simm - Jip

“Good morning, Gil. I said, good morning, Gil.”

Bill Murray - Bob Wiley

“Crazy people are the perfect subjects. They talk, nobody listens.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels

“The more you try to act sane, the crazier you start to look. If you smile too much, you are delusional or you are stifling hysteria. If you don't smile you are depressed. If you remain neutral you are emotionally withdrawn, potentially catatonic.”
Amy Ryan - Carol Dexter

“Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
Morgan Freeman - Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

“You can't decide matters of the heart. It is madness to try.”
Devon Aoki - Dominique

“- Deputy: Don't make us come get you.
- Arnie: You don't have to come and get me. I'm going up here.
- Gilbert: Arnie.
- Arnie: Whoa. I'm not gonna fall! Whoa!
- Tucker & Bobby: Whoa.
- Arnie: Hey! My shoe done fell off. My shoe done fell off, Gilbert.”

Tim Simek - Deputy
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape

“- Cindy Campbell: You guys are psychos! You've watched too many TV shows!
- Ray Wilkins: No! WatchingTV shows doesn't create psycho killers. Canceling TV shows does!”
Anna Faris - Cindy Campbell
Shawn Wayans - Ray Wilkins

“Bruce Wayne was right! You demented, bizarre, unethical toad! It is brain manipulation! I'm reporting you to the FCC, the Adverse Experimentation Board, the AMI, and the police! You are going up on charges, and then to prison, and then to a mental institution for the rest of your twisted little life! But first and foremost, Nygma, you are fired!...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Begley Jr. - Fred Stickley

“- Huck Finn: You gonna let her do that to you?
- Tom Sawyer: I think she likes me.
- Huck Finn: She pushes you off a bridge cuz she likes you? I think you're both crazy.”
Brad Renfro - Huck Finn
Jonathan Taylor Thomas - Tom Sawyer

“- Pete Graham: I'm trying to help you. Why don't you trust me?
- Miranda Grey: Because you can't trust somebody when they think you're crazy.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Pete Graham
Halle Berry - Miranda Grey

“I don't want to be crazy.”
Christopher Walken - Whitley Strieber

“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
Vince Vaughn - Norman Bates

“You think I'm mad. Perhaps I am. But listen, Henry Frankenstein. While you were digging in your graves, piecing together dead tissues, I, my dear pupil, went for my material to the source of life. I grew my creatures, like cultures, grew them as nature does, from seed.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

- Rachel Dawes: What's "scarecrow"?
- Dr. Jonathan Crane: Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia on an external tormentor. Usually one conforming to Jungian archetypes. In this case, a scarecrow.
Katie Holmes - Rachel Dawes
Cillian Murphy - Dr. Jonathan Crane

“- Moira: Arnold tells me you're a genius.
- Romulus: At what?
- Moira: Music.
- Romulus: Oh - is that all?
- Moira: Why, is there more?
Romulus: Well, I can put a lit match in my mouth, and when the lights are out I look like a jack-o-lantern.”
Ann Magnuson - Moira
Samuel L. Jackson - Romulus

“Who you calling a psycho?”

Woody Harrelson - Roy Munson

“- Nick: Jesus Christ, I thought you Kitchen guys were tough guys.
- Terry Noonan: We're not tough, Nick! We're just crazy.”
John Turturro - Nick
Sean Penn - Terry Noonan

“- Andrews: Do you love her?
- Peter: A normal human being couldn't live under the same roof with her without going nutty! She's my idea of nothing!”

Walter Connolly - Andrews
Clark Gable - Peter

“I think I'm falling in love with someone. But I gotta write a check first to make sure he's not a psychopath.”

Rebecca De Mornay - Dr. Sarah Taylor

“- Gloria: Julian, stop this! This is crazy!
- Julien: Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to make water, is crazy!”
Jada Pinkett Smith - Gloria
Sacha Baron Cohen - Julien

“There's no point in being nuts if you can't have a little fun.”
Russell Crowe - John Nash