Quotes About Psychology

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

We all have aspects of ourselves that we my not be aware of. Actors in particular - they have multiple personality disorder. They get paid a lot of money to exhibit that.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a perverse way.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

I'm not Dr. Phil. I'm not Dr. Laura.

Having a phobia has changed me.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

I've always had a dog phobia.

I have a phobia. I have a serious phobia of rodents. I don't even like white mice, hamsters.

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

At drama school, I always picked the really evil roles. It's a great way to deal with your everyday emotions.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

The truth of the matter is if we listened to our bodies and cleared our psychologies, we would inherently know what we need to do to stay healthy, and there wouldn't be a market for diet pills, extreme cleanses, or low-calorie, pre-packaged junk food.

We have beastly qualities within us. If we're put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.