Madmen Quotes

I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.

This is kind of my trilogy of madmen. I played the psycho in Cold Mountain (2003), my character in Hooligans (2005) (aka Green Street) is fairly psychotic and now I`ve got this role. On his role in Children of Men (2006).

This attack was pure chaos, and chaos is energy. All great changes have come from people or events that were initially misunderstood, and seemed frightening, like madmen. - On the September 11th attacks

This is still a dangerous world. It`s a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses.

There`s an enigmatic relationship between Max and myself. He has meant a tremendous amount to me....As an actor, Max is sound through and through. Robust. Technically durable. If I`d had a psychopath to present these deeply psychopathic roles, it would have been unbearable. It`s a question of acting the part of a broken man, not of being him. The sort of exhibitionism in this respect which is all the rage just now will pass over, I think. By and by people will regain their feeling for the subtle detachment which often exists between Max and my madmen. - Ingmar Bergman, Bergman on Bergman (1968)

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one`s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they`ll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.