Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
I'm a neurotic fiction writer who'd like to be a cowboy.
I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!
I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer' kind of way.
In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.
I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
