Quotes About Understanding

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

Becoming the character you are playing might work for some, but for me, it doesn't. I always maintain a gap between myself and my character because if I will go so deep into it, it will get difficult for me to come back. You should work towards understanding the psyche of your character and then play it.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is clinical neuroscience, based on a much deeper understanding of the brain.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Clearly, I'm not psychic.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.

It's easy to make rude comments simply for the sake of being rude, but I'd much rather go a more psychological route.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.