Teri Garr Quotes

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

People think I'm nuts.

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

People like my honesty. When I'm sane, I'm very much myself.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I'm the last person to claim that I'm sane.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I still get awful depression. It's who I am.