Manic Quotes

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

It's so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. - and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear 'Manic Monday' on the radio, and you don't even know this person, and they're listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind.

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

The manic end of is a lot of fun.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.