So, we were studying mental disorders in my intro-to-psych class, and I remembered a quote I heard in a movie somewhere that went roughly like this:
“You’re a psychopath!”
“A psychopath doesn’t know any better. I’m a Sociopath. I just don’t care.”
Anybody know where this might have come from?
Collateral (Tom Cruise), I think.
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Underworld, with Denis Leary, I think - just watched it the other night
I thought that psychopath and sociopath were basically the same thing, and that the preferred term is now Antisocial Personality Disorder.
It seems like they rename that condition every decade or so.
Which is it?
I just saw Collateral about two weeks ago, and I don’t remember this line being in it.
I do, however, remember this exchange from Grosse Pointe Blank:
Minne Driver: You’re a psychopath!
John Cusack: No, a psychopath kills people for no reason. I kill people for money. Wait, that came out wrong!
I always liked this one:
“I always felt a psychopath was no match for a properly directed psychotic.” – The Punisher (The Punisher, Vol. 2, Issue 13)
It might make more sense as “A psychotic doesn’t know any better.”
It comes about an hour into the movie, shortly after Cruise says " it doesn’t do anything, that’s the beauty of it."
So I win, right?
What do I get?
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