Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He’s mad as custard.
I’m not a ‘dystopian, futuristic master’: I’m a schnook walking the street. It’s an insane reality we’re living in, and I’m just trying to translate it for myself.
I’d probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I’ve always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
It’s insane but it’s a great insane.
I was a total, insane ‘Breaking Bad’ fan.
You initially become funny as a kid because you’re looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that’s all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam’s the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.
I’m a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.
I’m just insane. So what usually drives me is pure joy for something stupid. I’m also very visual. I’ll have an idea in my head that I really can’t shake.
Cyclists are insane. You’re going through the Alps, climbing up mountains. There’s this circus around them. They’re so tough. When they have a day off, they go out and cycle 100 miles.
For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, ‘I’m just going to look like a banker.’
Sometimes I introduce myself to people, and their reaction reminds me that it’s insane that my name is Beanie.
I’m a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It’s fun, you know? It’s things I wouldn’t normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
It’s insane to really think about, someone is going to pay me $100 million to do what I would do anyway on a regular day; it’s insane.
The culture of celebrity has become insane. It’s all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.
My favourite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn’t play him, because he’s got this insane quality that’s like a wild animal and still sort of frail, fragile. But he’s my idol.
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I’m totally insane.
I don’t Tweet a lot because I’ve Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.
You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.
I love a good suit, and when I see photographs of myself in a jacket that doesn’t fit me quite right or the sleeves are too long, it drives me insane.
New Year’s was insane! It was the best show I’ve ever played for New Year’s.
Our music was, like, Doors-y, but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we put them together they were this crazy amalgam of insane ideas that we thought was really cool.
My dad has sacrificed so much for me and my family, so for me to be getting the star treatment is insane.
‘Midnight Cowboy’ is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It’s insane.
What’s completely insane to me is that people would consider music that’s simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn’t simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt – to me, anyway – is what makes you human, and without doubt, even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity.
Frank Zappa… was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
Here’s the good news. If I realize that I’m insane, then I’m okay with it. I’m not dangerous insane.
I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a cafe, and I did bike delivery, and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.
The things the writers have me doing on ‘Suburgatory’ are insane. I think they think it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
On ’90 Day Bae,’ Marcy Jarreau and I recap ’90 Day Fiancee’ because it’s just the most insane, funniest show on television.
I’d love to play someone who’s insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that’s ironic. That’s where we are, but seriously, it’d be really cool to play a superhero.
We were up for a Grammy, we sold millions of records and we toured the world I don’t know how many times. It was insane.
I have a living room full of clothes. It’s insane.
If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life: my diet, my training, my thyroid. It’s insane to make 140.
It’s insane to have won all those things – not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you’ve won.
They say not everyone can be MGR. I agree. MGR is a revolutionary. Not in a 1,000 years can there be another MGR. If anyone says he will be the next MGR, he is insane. But I have the confidence that I can give the government that MGR gave to the people of Tamil Nadu.
I know whoever I’ll work with, will open up different avenues for me, be it Imtiaz Ali or Rajkumar Hirani, the list is endless, the amount of talent we have in our country in terms of directors is insane.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
‘Teenage Wildlife’ is just epic. It’s, like, five or six minutes long, and it kind of crescendos and builds into this insane vocal of Bowie wailing. I think I would pay $5,000 dollars to see footage of that recording session.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Honestly, when I had the idea to make ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, ‘I want to make a movie about Al Gore’s slide show, will you give me a million dollars?’ People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
Merlin’ was awesome, but the costumes would drive you insane. Every day, you’d get into chain mail and wear 30 pounds of that stuff.
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.
I’d never buy something, even if it’s a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that’s insane.
If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.
When I was injured after ‘Kill Bill’ I had a year where I not just couldn’t make any money but I couldn’t swim, I couldn’t surf, I could hardly run, which is insane. I couldn’t do gymnastics, martial arts, I could barely crawl on all fours. That was devastating to me.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits – men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn’t found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.
A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine – it’s part of not being totally insane.
Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.
The magazines drive me insane, because it’s such an unrealistic ideology, that you’re going to have a baby, or even just be out of shape for a little while, and then ping back into shape.
It’s been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
I remember talking to Xavier Woods about so many things and vignettes and backstages and these stories we could do between our crazy weird characters and their insane, obviously fun loving characters and all this stuff.
Ray Allen’s diet was insane. He was trying to break it down to me what he ate and how disciplined he tries to stay. When you’re a 21 year-old, you’re not used to that. He was doing Paleo and experimenting with all types of things.
Portishead’s production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there’s this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like ‘It’s A Fire.’ That’s a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.
I had a bunch of paintings around at my house, and someone said to me, ‘Why don’t you just put them on Instagram? Why don’t you show people these?’ And I didn’t want to – it was just something else I would have to do. But eventually, I was like, ‘What’s the harm?’ And the response was so insane!
‘Zoolander.’ Yeah, I mean, I love Ben Stiller; he’s just a brilliant guy. And I love Will Ferrell in it, too. His character, to me, is just insane, and he made such huge choices, and he’s such a weirdo!
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
