It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way.
Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.