Quotes About Psychology

We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

When I don't reraise with a premium hand like K-K, I'll just smooth-call. Sometimes I just don't want to announce the strength of my hand to the entire table.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

Sadly, you can't just pretend that you haven't seen the creepy things that people have said about you. It's something that gets in your brain.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

I think there are some people who have those childhoods that are really bad and so what happens is that they find an escape through pretending to be other people.

Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common is that, growing up, being funny was a coping mechanism.

I don't see myself as having a dark side.

I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

I'm not one of those actors who wants to live in some kind of dark character and wants to live in the darkness so much that no one around me has any fun.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.