Quotes About Psychology

When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

There's a great feeling when you look in someone's eyes and they have that 'look of defeat,' and that's what I'm looking for, and that's my game plan.

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

There are a lot of grey areas in 'The Cry' and the grey is what I'm interested in as an actor.

I don't know why my leading men have grey shades. Maybe I am trying to explore that side of me through them.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

I love watching people, guessing what they are going to do next. I'm no Derren Brown, but I love that people stuff. Maybe that's why I'm an actor.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? How many therapists do you think it takes to change a lightbulb?

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