Delusional Quotes
When delusion is a flaw, and when it's a survival tactic.
These quotes examine what it means to be called delusional, from a screenwriter who says self-confidence has to start as delusion, to political critics who use the word as a direct accusation. There's a real tension here between delusion as a flaw and delusion as a survival tactic.
I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
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The only benefit of my dad being in the film industry was that I got a reality check right from the start. I wasn't delusional and didn't want to be an actor just for the glamour.
My wife says I have happy delusions. I'm delusional that way. I just say, 'This is how it's got to be, and it's got to be.' I don't take no. I just don't like no. Sometimes it works and sometimes...
Am Quotes
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to...
I just find there's nothing funnier and more scary than a delusional man who thinks they're the center of the universe, and in fact they're not.
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script.
I'm sort of a delusional in the sense of, I was just gonna graduate from school and just, like, prance onto a film set and have a movie crew waiting for me to make my '8½' or something, which is...
I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.
Any Other Way Quotes
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the '90s. It's exceptionally hard to describe what I've written without sounding delusional or boring, so I'll just say...
My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and work twice as hard as my white peers if I wanted to survive in America, and the second...
When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.
Attending Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions...
