Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
Vittorio Gassman

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.
David Icke

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Alexis Korner

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Thomas Szasz

In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been.
Ivan Reitman

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
Oscar Levant

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
Wesley Willis

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.
Chester Brown

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow