Quotes About Psychology

As an actor, of course it's exciting to go and explore characters. It's exciting to explore human psychology and relationships, and that's really the drive, at the end of the day, for me.

Political leaders can help change the psychological climate which affects the quality of relationships among people.

I had a prodigious life, living in a grown-up world when I was a child. But I think my abilities were about perceptiveness, and they were about examining psychology and examining people and relationships.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Nightmares are releases.

It's almost like the psychology of a film is no different from the psychology of a person in that it has to function, it has to breathe, it has to have its releases, it has anxiety.

You don't get hits if you're depressed.

For me, that's the biggest thing, if something holds me back it's my mental game so I really tried to focus on that and just worked on that.

There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

Most horror films fail to scare me.

I can't watch horror films because I am easily scared.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

For me, 'The Haunting of Hill House' is a series about life after a haunting, what happens after the credits roll in most horror films.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

I think scoring first is huge in the postseason.

I am a huge fan of shows like 'Breaking Bad,' 'Dexter,' 'The Mentalist.'

There's no map to human behaviour.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.