"But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?"

-- Milan Kundera

#Men Quotes #Hysteria Quotes #Self Quotes

“What did Romeo and Juliet do?â€ They died,â€ I remind her gently. â€œSome mix-up with the poison-”
“I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.”
“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”

Source : "Later" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.
“If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.”
“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”
“The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.”
“Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.”
“Fox succeeds because it's entertaining. It's like a rightwing freak show.”

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