Quotes of: Madness Keyword

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

John Simm

If you think that I am mad now, then take away my books, and you'll find I've completely gone insane!

Jen Selinsky

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Denis Diderot

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Daphne Guinness

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

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

John Glover

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

John Slattery

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

James Wolcott

I did Shakespeare in college, and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.' I want to get the dialogue just spot-on.

Kristoffer Polaha

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Juno Temple

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

Hilary Mantel

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

Tony Benn

Dr. Edward Morbius: ...No doctor, not even though I were the mad scientist of the tape thriller...

Forbidden Planet

[from trailer] Max Rockatansky: My name is Max. My world is fire. And blood.

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Dag: [about Max] He's a crazy smeg who eats schlanger!

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Dag: Angharad used to call them antiseed. Plant one and watch something die.

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Gyro Captain: Don't touch please, that's a precision instrument.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Arthur Jensen: [greeting Beale] How are you now? Howard Beale: I'm as mad as a hatter. Arthur Jensen: Who isn't?

Network

Jöns: Our crusade was such madness that only a real idealist could have thought it up.

The Seventh Seal

Dorothy: I've got a witch mad at me and you might get into trouble!

The Wizard of Oz

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Voltaire