What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.
I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
It seems to me that humour is everybody's way of keeping sane and standing off from the situations so that they can see it intellectually, as well as emotionally, and I don't know whether you've noticed, but if somebody tells a joke, it's nearly always a mini fantasy.
I don't really trust a sane person.
In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.
'Eagle vs Shark' was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.
Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more.
People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
I always say, 'Eat clean to stay fit; have a burger to stay sane.'
Showbusiness is such a mad profession, I find commerce a wonderful outlet for keeping me sane.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
People look for patterns in everything. It's what keeps us sane, I suppose. I struggle to see any patterns in my life. I think I can understand depression a bit because of my sister. My own feelings of... I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.
I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
I can assure you I'm quite sane and have proof that dialog 'works.'
Nobody sane wants just to be famous.
I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.
I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?