Crispin Glover Quotes

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

I'm crazy, but I'm not too crazy.

Art-school girls are very nice.

Even when I'm in a really great, steady and stable place... I'm clinically bipolar, so that always exists - a darkness always exists.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I was in more of the artsy crowd in high school.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity, as we all know.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

I am not a madman or a nut.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else.

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

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.