Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
Terence Mckenna
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[Ullmann, 66, still feels very close to Marianne.] Of all the things I did for Ingmar, this is the character I could most associate with, ... He based a lot of it on what he knew about me. I also felt she was the least neurotic of all the women I played for him.
Liv Ullmann
All currency is neurotic currency.
Norman O. Brown
Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy.
Connie Willis
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Louis Auchincloss
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Marlon Brando
They are incredibly active and have to be worked. If you don't, they become neurotic and they're smart enough to make you neurotic too.
Stanley Coren
She is so cold and so hard and so neurotic because of what she's done. She's immensely wealthy - making profits of a Meryl-Made line of clothing and so forth. But she is so deeply compromised because of all of this.
Peter Weir
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.
Stella Mccartney
I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.
Stephen Sondheim
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
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