The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
ELLIOT CARVER, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Is there an indelible line dividing sanity from insanity...or do they change, one into the other at the slightest change of events?
VINCENT, Kaubôi bibappu: Tengoku no tobira (Cowboy Bebop: the Movie) (2001)
There is the brink of insanity and then there is the abyss, which obviously you have fallen into!
KEVIN DOLENZ, St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
Are you clinically insane or just incredibly annoying?
CAPTAIN JIM BRASS, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "The Descent of Man" (2009)
When I hired you, I knew you were insane. I will continue to try and stop you from doing insane things, but once they're done, trying to convince an insane person not to do insane things is, in itself, insane. So when I hired you, I also set aside fifty thousand a year for legal expenses. So far, you've come in under budget.
DR. LISA CUDDY, House M.D., "D.N.R." (2004)
This is a mental facility for the criminally insane, "usual" isn't a part of our day!
NURSE MARINO, Shutter Island (2010)
Sanity's not a choice...you can't just choose to get over it.
DR. CAWLEY, Shutter Island (2010)
We all go a little mad sometimes.
NORMAN BATES, Psycho (1960)
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret...all the best people are!
CHARLES KINGSLEIGH/ALICE KINGSLEIGH, Alice in Wonderland (2010)
You cannot outsmart "crazy". You don't know what a troubled mind will get caught on. "Crazy" always seems to find a way. It always has.
JON STEWART, The Daily Show, "Denis Leary" (2011)
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