Mad Quotes

He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childless. I figured there's got to be one more way to really tick off my mom.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.