# Source of Psychopath/Sociopath quote? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302 "2006-11-30T07:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/1 "2006-11-30T07:29:59Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/2 "2006-11-30T09:20:12Z")
**Collateral** (Tom Cruise), I think. Q ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/3 "2006-11-30T17:34:26Z")
_Underworld_, with Denis Leary, I think - just watched it the other night ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/4 "2006-11-30T17:38:30Z")
[IMDB link for Underworld](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120414/) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/5 "2006-11-30T18:00:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/6 "2006-11-30T23:30:08Z")
Which is it? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/7 "2006-11-30T23:39:31Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/8 "2006-12-01T01:41:38Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/9 "2006-12-01T11:07:18Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] 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.” [/QUOTE] It might make more sense as “A psy_chotic_ doesn’t know any better.” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/10 "2006-12-01T11:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] I just saw _Collateral_ about two weeks ago, and I don’t remember this line being in it. [/QUOTE] It comes about an hour into the movie, shortly after Cruise says " it doesn’t do anything, that’s the beauty of it." ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-psychopath-sociopath-quote/382302/11 "2006-12-02T09:07:15Z")
So I win, right? What do I get? 🙂 Q