Mia Farrow Quotes

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

People who go into show business are screwed up.

Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

Sometimes actresses are just insane.

I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

All actors may not be stars, but all stars are actors, and I can vouch for that.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true.

I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to do it and so few opportunities to do it that it's not as easy as it would seem.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.