Quotes About Psychology

I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.

If you're an app, how do you keep people hooked? Turn yourself into a slot machine.

It's really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are all stabs at something that can't be taught. All the great actors can't talk about what they do, and they don't want to begin to talk about it. They just do it.

When I'm channel surfing, and 'Silence of the Lambs' comes on, I have trouble turning it off. I wouldn't say that about 'Beautiful Mind.' It's a good movie, but I'm much more in awe of what Jonathan Demme did with 'Silence of the Lambs.'

The human mind, as it turns out, is messy.

It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

No TV show in history, no movie ever made - nothing you can imagine as being written or filmed or performed can turn a normal human being into a Dexter.

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.