Quotes About Psychology

In the Championship you do take tackles where you think, 'OK, he is putting one on me to prove a point.' They want to try and get in your head, ruin your performance. It doesn't bother me.

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.

You're playing a role, but you're still feeling it. You can walk away from it after 'Cut,' but if you're playing a sad or mixed-up person, it's hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.

I like the fact that when I check in the game, the other players start getting nervous. The other team gets nervous. I like that.

I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.

Everything in adulthood can be traced back to childhood.

If you think about it, just the psychology of the superhero is, 'Because I can, I should protect people, and I should put bad guys away, and I should defend society.' But you're forming your own justice. There's no judge and jury here: you are it. That, in and of itself, is a very complicated way of looking at morality.

I think the best thing you can do with a 'Superman' game is to kind of explore the psychology of what it would be like to be a person who slowly begins to realize that he can't save everybody.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

I do believe a haircut makes you play better - I've experienced that before. I think it's confidence, it's routine, and it can also be superstition. Just like if you do your hair, it's not quite done right, and you have a bad day, you're not going to do that again the next day.

I'm kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.

I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

Certainly you can't just live in sort of a Pollyanna world where decisions don't have to be made, but I also fight back sometimes and maybe because I was the mayor's son, going back to that psychology. You know, you fight back a little bit of that, 'You have to do this and you have to be into this category; you have to support this.'

Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim might sound outlandish, but it's supported now by research in several laboratories.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.