# Source of quote about being crazy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659 "2010-02-04T08:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/1 "2010-02-04T08:24:34Z")
I have a strong memory of a movie quote that goes something like this: “I’m not crazy! You’re crazy! The whole freakin’ world’s crazy!” May not be word for word, but the structure seems right in my memory. maybe substitute mad or insane where necessary. It sounds like something Howard Beale would have said in Network, but I haven’t seen it in the IMDB quotes, and my attempts to Google it were unsuccessful. Does anyone recognise this or where it comes from? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/2 "2010-02-04T08:41:05Z")
For some reason I can see Jack Nicholson as the Joker saying this. I can’t turn up anything verifying it though. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/3 "2010-02-04T09:20:36Z")
Not the same, but Al Pacino in JUSTICE FOR ALL has the famous out of order scene: JUDGE: “Mr. Kirkland you’re out of order… KIRKLAND (Pacino): You’re out of order, you’re out of order, the whole trial is out of order…” It’s often misquoted (ala “You dirty rat you killed my brother!” and other film lines that were never said) as “I’m out of order, you’re out of order, the whole world’s out of order!” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/4 "2010-02-04T09:52:12Z")
There’s a similar line on [this page](http://www.defamer.com.au/2010/01/the-breakup-of-brangelina-rages-through-the-morning/) which may or may not be a quote : “Fuck you! I’m not crazy; you’re crazy, MAN! This whole world’s out of order!” In context, if it _is_ a quote, it might be a Brad Pitt line. Perhaps 12 Monkeys? Or Kalifornia, Fight Club, Se7en Years in Tibet, etc. Although it also sounds like Crispin Glover and/or Dennis Hopper in River’s Edge. Almost completely off-topic, I watched the MST3K episode Werewolf tonight, and I can say it’s definitely not this line: Yuri: You calling me a psychopath? _Crow: I’ll kill your whole family if you call me that again!_ ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/5 "2010-02-04T14:48:06Z")
All I wanted was a Pepsi… ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/6 "2010-02-04T15:08:08Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Not the same, but Al Pacino in JUSTICE FOR ALL has the famous out of order scene: > > JUDGE: “Mr. Kirkland you’re out of order… > KIRKLAND (Pacino): You’re out of order, you’re out of order, the whole trial is out of order…” > > It’s often misquoted (ala “You dirty rat you killed my brother!” and other film lines that were never said) as “I’m out of order, you’re out of order, the whole world’s out of order!” That’s the first movie I thought of.I also thought of this scene in “Falling Down.” Barbara Hershey: “Bill, listen, please. You’ve got to stop this. You need help. You’re sick.” Michael Douglas: “Sick? You wanna see sick? Take a walk around this town. THAT’S sick.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/7 "2010-02-04T15:09:29Z")
It was a prototypical man scientist rant – “Mad? You call me mad? The world is mad! I am sane.” That’s probably more an expression of the basic idea, not an actual quote. ---
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/8 "2010-02-04T21:06:39Z")
Thanks all. I guess my “strong memory” needs a fine tune. I think I must have been thinking of the _Justice for all_ meme that **Sampiro** quoted. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/9 "2010-02-04T21:18:08Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > All I wanted was a Pepsi… Just one Pepsi, but she wouldn’t give it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-quote-about-being-crazy/527659/10 "2010-02-04T23:17:09Z")
My favorite rendition of this is from the animated series The Tick: **Arthur:** I think I’m going crazy. **The Tick:** You’re not going crazy, Arthur. You’re going _sane_ in a crazy world!