Ned Beatty quotes

Ned Beatty quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I only really work when I want to.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I want to see the writers strike because the writers, god bless them, are the only true commies we have in Hollywood.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I'm blessed with eight children - though I'm talking about eight adults now.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I'm getting grumpier all the time.”
-- Ned Beatty
“It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.”
-- Ned Beatty

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“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”
“You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.”
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
“A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.”
“I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.”

Source : Ben Lerner (2011). “Leaving the Atocha Station”, p.158, Coffee House Press
“I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.”
“He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.”

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