Quotes About Paranoia

El catolicismo, infiltrado por vía intravenosa, cobró en mí sus efectos más paranoicos y tóxicos

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

He buried money in distant hotel rooms, carried tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, around in a suitcase; he kept wads of cashier's checks in his wallet. He always had a back door, a quick exit, a way of getting out, because behind the boarded-up windows of his life, the Godfather's fear of having nothing was overwhelming in its ability to swallow him whole and send him into a series of wild behaviors.

Total paranoia is just total awareness.

call me hopelessly paranoid, but this whole place was starting to seem creepily idyllic. Like, my bedroom was charming. Charming! What did I know about charming? I'd never called anything charming before in my life.

There are 316 million people in the United States of America. About six million of them watch 'Homeland,' Showtime's thriller about world terror, paranoia, and bipolar disorder. That's about 2 percent of the population; roughly what the guy with the beard running on the Libertarian Party ticket gets when he runs for Congress.

When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

I had this notion that everyone was staring at me and judging everything about me, from my appearance to the way I talk and everything.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

I remember, I used to get off a bus, and if there was someone sitting in the station, I remember thinking maybe they were from Shin Bet and came for me.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

There are things which only madmen fear because only madmen may truly conceive of them.

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.

Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

It aroused my paranoia (which is always there in ready supply, since it is preferable to poor powers of anticipation).