„The challenge is to understand the psyche of somebody like that. There is no true genius or revolutionary ideas, I don’t think, without some element of compulsiveness or madness or obsession, and that’s certainly indicative of Howard Hughes. Understanding his obsessive-compulsive disorder was really the key for me for opening up who this man was.“

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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„I just don’t quite understand it [the press], really. I don’t understand the animal. It’s a strange, roundabout way of selling something; it leaves a foul taste… The thing that fascinates me is: who cares what an actor thinks?“
— Johnny Depp
„No restwithout love,No sleepwithout dreamsof love -be mad or chillobsessed with angelsor machinesthe final wishis love.“
— Allen Ginsberg
„Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.“
— Socrates
„I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.“
— Albert Einstein
„Max opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again. “No.”“Speak louder. You used a word I don’t understand.”“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.“
— Emil M. Cioran