Madness quotes

“She's still crazy about him. He's still crazy.”

Dori Brenner - Sylvia Rosenberg

“- Flash Gordon: This Ming is a psycho!
- Ming's Floating Servant: This Ming is a psycho.
- Klytus: Who said that?
- Ming's Floating Servant: The fair-haired prisoner.
- Klytus: Who are you?
- Flash Gordon: Flash Gordon. Quarterback. New York Jets.”
Sam J. Jones - Flash Gordon
Peter Wyngarde - Klytus

“Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First, to destroy it; then, recreate it. There you have his mad dream.”

Edward Van Sloan - Doctor Waldman

“- Terry Collins: You're insane!
- Kate Wheeler: I'm unhappy! It's not the same thing.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Terry Collins
Cate Blanchett - Kate Wheeler

“I'm sick of my sister's attraction to razor blades - and I'm sick of shrinks who can't do a fucking thing to help her.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- J. Frank Parnell: One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end.
- Otto: Lobotomy? Isn't that for loonies?”
Fox Harris - J. Frank Parnell
Emilio Estevez - Otto

“You're crazier than a road lizard, Billy.”
Gil Bellows - Watty Watts

“- Janet: Are you completely psychotic?
- Henry Hackett: I have episodes. Nothing serious.”
Lynne Thigpen - Janet
Michael Keaton - Henry Hackett

“- Bob Wiley: You ever hear of Tourette's syndrome? Involuntarily shouting profanity?
- Dr. Leo Marvin: It's exceptionally rare.
- Bob Wiley: Shit-eating son-of-a-bitch! Bastard, douche-bag, twat, numb-nuts, dickhead, bitch!
- Dr. Leo Marvin: Why exactly are you doing this?
- Bob Wiley: If I fake it, then I don't have it.”
Bill Murray - Bob Wiley
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dr. Leo Marvin

“- Mike: I want to stop him.
- Reggie: The Tall Man? That story about me blowing up my own house because it was infested with midgets. Mike, that wasn't real. Your doctor said that it was your own paranoid delusions caused by your brother's death.”
James Le Gros - Mike
Reggie Bannister - Reggie

“- Claudia Draper: Now, you talk to me and pretend I'm sane, okay?
- Aaron Levinsky: Okay.
- Claudia Draper: And I'll do the same for you.”
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Aaron Levinsky

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“When will you get it into your head that one can produce a copious, regular and exquisitely turned evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason.”
Geoffrey Palmer - Warren

“You believed in these drugs. And, you rebuilt this man. And you did put him back out on the street. But now, he's out there killing people. And we can't have that. Now you find him... and you fix it.”

John L. Watkins - Man with Cigar

“- Charlie Reece: I hear voices on the radio sometimes.
- Albert Morse: What sort of voices, Charles?
- Charlie Reece: Music. Telling me to kill. There's this one radio station I listen to. It's the devil station. I listen and I hear Satan telling me to kill. Sometimes I think this isn't real. It's not really messages, it's not making any sense....” (continue)(continue reading)
Alex McArthur - Charlie Reece
Nicholas Campbell - Albert Morse

It reminds me of my favorite poem, which is, "Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic... and so am I!"

Bill Murray - Bob Wiley

Dan, what the medical gang calls "schizophrenics" are people who've taken a journey into the inmost reaches of the psyche. Most psychiatrists haven't the guts to follow them there. But I believe in you, Dan... I believe in you.
Donald Pleasence - Dr. Leo Bain

“What difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?”
Sean Penn - 1st Sgt. Welsh

“- Steve: I don't know why someone hasn't taken a rifle and blown your head off.
- The Motorcycle Boy: Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect for the insane.”
Vincent Spano - Steve
Mickey Rourke - The Motorcycle Boy

“- Swift Heart Rabbit: You must be the Mad Hatter.
- Mad Hatter: Why do I always have to be the Mad Hatter? Why can't you be the Mad Hatter for once? Oh, alright, I'll be the Mad Hatter again! You like hats? I'm mad about hats!”
Eva Almos - Swift Heart Rabbit
Keith Hampshire - The Mad Hatter

“Talking looking glasses, tricky queens, secret doors. This place burns me up!”
Jonathan Harris - Sunburn

- Norman Spencer: I'm going to have the police check on the house while I'm gone.
- Claire Spencer: Oh great! "Could you check in on my wife? She's hearing voices!". Yeah, wait until that gets around.
Harrison Ford - Norman Spencer
Michelle Pfeiffer - Claire Spencer

“- Mike Lafebb: Man, I never met anybody who did crime for a living. I mean I had a cousin once who held up a gas station on his bicycle, but he was nuts.
- Ernie Mullins: Runs in the family, huh?”
Casey Siemaszko - Mike Lafebb
Burt Reynolds - Ernie Mullins

- Natalie Simon: You're fucking crazy!
- Brenda Bates: I prefer the term "eccentric". But, yeah, I guess I'm a little "nutty".

Alicia Witt - Natalie Simon
Rebecca Gayheart - Brenda Bates

“- Dr. Raymond: Norman was not convicted of murder. He was found not guilty by reasons of insanity, and since he is no longer insane, he has the right to live a normal life like you and I.
- Lila Loomis: That's just legal hocus pocus, and when he murders again you will be directly responsible.”
Robert Loggia - Dr. Bill Raymond
Vera Miles - Lila Loomis