Psychopathic Quotes

As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it`s because I`ve played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

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)

(on his giggling psychopathic killer in his debut film "Kiss of Death") I`d never seen myself on the screen, and when I did, I wanted to shoot myself. That damn laugh of mine! For two years after that picture, you couldn`t get me to smile. I played the part the way I did because the script struck me as funny and the part I played made me laugh, the guy was such a ridiculous beast.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift"... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git.