Her strong-willed mother decided, "You can make a neurotic mess out of this child, or you can make her a happy baby."

I mean, Amanda's just a neurotic mess.

Most of Shandling's act, both on and off camera, consists of self-deprecating humor that paints him as a neurotic, self-obsessed, lovelorn mess.

"They're going to be neurotic messes because they're overstimulated," he said.

A neurotic mess, Jennifer can barely handle the news that Kip is a philanderer, let alone the revelation that she is a gangster's daughter.

'I'm just a neurotic mess.'

Have a look at yourself if you're looking for a neurotic mess.

"He didn't learn anything - I was a neurotic mess," she said.

'And turned it into another confused, neurotic mess like me?'

According to Alan, Judith was a thin, scared, needy and neurotic mess with a strange eating disorder when he met her, and lived in the shadow of her more attractive popular sister.