Quotes About Psychology

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.

A woman's mind focuses on feelings, while a man's mind focuses on problem-solving.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

If I can keep it light in between scenes, then that helps me dig down further than if I try and stay at that constant place all day. That's just me. Every actor's got their thing. But that's what I do.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

War is not a petri dish to examine and analyze our emotions.

I had an attachment disorder.

If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.