Hysteria Quotes

"I`m proud of the songs we managed to knock together. And what we did... Everything! We smoked everything, drank everything, ate everything! Yeah, everything! I won`t say more, we broke havok, and that was great, we were the walking revolution! Only one thing was happening, and we were this thing. I remember the gigs in England, the first time, it was complete hysteria!"

When I`m saying hysteria, I`m referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

(November 2000): "I take all this hysteria as a compliment."

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

The Classical principle is not that everybody comes away happy; but that everybody comes out thinking, which is a validation of ourselves as human beings, as opposed to the animals that go to a rave or a hip-hop concert, and just dance away in some kind of flagellant hysteria. The Classical principle is that you go and you sit and absorb the events of the play, And you think about it afterwards.

Even talking about the nature of this war, and Iraq and the Middle East, it`s very difficult even to have a conversation. Anything that veers away from the official line, there`s a hysteria that pops in.

Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

Other comedy teams never generated anything like the hysteria that (Dean Martin) and I did, and that was because we had that X factor--the powerful feeling between us. And it really was an X factor, a kind of mystery.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

It`s an example of how people are buying into the administration`s line that there is a terrorist behind every bush and that we need to be fearful. Caution, not hysteria, should be the order of the day. Running everybody through a palm reading device seems to be more on the order of hysteria than caution.