Quotes About Insight

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.