Psycho Quotes

• I have to return some videotapes

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Return

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. January 21, 2000.

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• I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.

  Gerard Way

  Mcr, Psychotic

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• My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

  Christina Ricci

  Movie, Dream, Real

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• 'Do you know what Ed Gein said about women?' [...] '"When I see a pretty girl walking down the street I think two things. One part of me wants to take her out and talk to her and be real nice and sweet and treat her right."' I stop finish my J&B in one swallow. 'What does the other part of him think?' Hamlin asks tentatively. 'What her head would look like on a stick...'

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "American Psycho". Book by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991.

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• Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

  Julie Delpy

  Depression, Mental Illness, Boring

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• A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

  Meredith Ann Pierce

  Life, Heart, Fire

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• Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

  Terence McKenna

  Reality

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• Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

  Rene Balcer

  Girl, Dream, Brain

  "Fictional character: Detective Mike Logan". "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", m.imdb.com. (2001–2011).

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• Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Creative, Scream

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• I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

  Michael Shannon

  Dark, People, Pay

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• Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, People, Want

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Twenties Girl”, p.226, Random House

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• Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

  Robert D. Hare

  Opportunity, Views, Psychology

  Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

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• No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.

  Christian Fennesz

  Band, Stuff, Fine

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• I am just your ordinary,
  average every day sane psycho,
  supergoddess.

  Liz Phair

  Average, Ordinary, Sane

  Song: Extraordinary, Album: Liz Phair

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• I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.

  Bill Burr

  Lying, Stage

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• What do you think you're doing?

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Thinking, Lucky Charms, Odyssey

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho: The Second PC Grant Mystery”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

  Nick Frost

  Heart, Caring, Thinking

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• I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Girl, Insane, Knows

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• she thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Names, Causes

  Song: Better Than Revenge, Album: Speak Now

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• A boy's best friend is his mother.

  Joseph Stefano

  Movie, Family, Mom

  "Fictional character: Norman Bates". "Psycho", www.imdb.com. 1960.

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• I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway.

  Josh Holloway

  Fun, Character, Cowboy

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• I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

  Janelle Monae

  Scare, My Favorite, Hitchcock Movie

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• When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

  Penn Jillette

  Intellectual, Celebration, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had recently read a novel called American Psycho,and that it was a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Father, Character, Men

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• Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.

  Simon Critchley

  Order, Political, Citizens

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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