"I've written this song called 'Insania' - it's a mix of Insane and Mania, and even though it's a made up word you instantly know what it means!"
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"I'm just trying to keep my head above water as I learn how to act. I feel like I have so much to learn, it's insane. The only thing I know is that I don't know or have a grasp on anything other than this one thing that's within me, whatever that is, so I'm just trying to trust that."
"I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away."
"I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to."
"No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk."
"What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?"
"I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"
"I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor."
"Man spends a great deal of time making order out of chaos, yet insists that the emotions be disordered. I order my emotions: I am insane."
"When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader."
"When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum."
"In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would some day be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum."
"I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute."
"Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane."
"If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane."
"Being in TV is insane. The notes you get sometimes, I just don't understand them."
"Hay algo más tonto en la vida Que llamarse Pablo Neruda? (is there anything more insane in this life than being called Pablo Neruda?)"
"She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane."
"Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?"
"You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?"