Quotes About Psychology

I'm very interested in dysfunction. I kind of realized in my first film that a character with so much rage that she didn't know where to put it was both heartbreaking and interesting to me.

I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don't, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

Randy Johnson had a tell. If he thought you knew what was coming, he would hit you. So that was his tell. That's probably, that's a tell. That's a tell from Randy Johnson. He'd hit you, happily.

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.

My father told me abuse is generational.

Truth is, I have been scared of birds since I was a little girl. I think it's genetic because my mom shares this fear with me.

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.

I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.

The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.

The good things never stay in your head. Only the bad things live on.

Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP) encourages participants to expose themselves to their obsessions (or to situations that will bring on the obsessions), while they prevent themselves from using compulsions to get rid of the resulting anxiety.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.

First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

sometimes a digar is just a cigar

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.