Quotes About Psychology

Advertising is so touchy-feely. You have to speak to the psyche of the people. I'm not very good at that.

The process of playing a character as dark as Omar Saeed Sheikh is disturbing. So you have to mentally also be in that psyche, that state of mind. So, it was not easy. I was trying to cultivate a lot of anger and hatred in me while portraying him, because that's what I read and heard about him.

I'm really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don't, and in how the human psyche responds.

It's not easy trying to get into the psyche and behaviour patterns, which are far removed from one's own personality. Some intense characters linger long after it's over on screen.

I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

Making people laugh is a really fabulous thing because it means you're getting deep inside somebody, into their psyche, and their ability to look at themselves.

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

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

Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

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.

We're seeing more of the female psyche on screen than we used to.

Being locked inside the house plays on a psyche of any child and I believe the most important thing is the mental health of any kid.

There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist - but they are all frustrated with their reality.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.