Quotes About Psychology

I don't think any evil character thinks that they are evil - they think they have insight that people don't.

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.

I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

I'm interested in interpersonal space.

She's going to UCLA in the fall to major in psychology, and I guess after that she'll be more revolting than ever.

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

Several studies have shown that the regulation of food intake has its foundation in early eating experiences. If as a child your parents took control over most of your eating without respecting your preferences or hunger levels, you easily got the message

This is explained in part by the Boundary Model for the Regulation of Eating developed by C. Peter Herman and Janet Polivy, psychological experts in chronic dieting. This model considers both the biology and psychology of eating.