Quotes About Analysis

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

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

Literature has become too psychological.

Over the years I have heard all the psychological analysis which says that habitually tardy people are narcissists and I don't buy it. I'm late because I am always trying to do one more thing for my family before I leave the door.

Psychological mapping for political ends is now going to be part of every campaign.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

You read a script, you try and think through what is the best, most wide-ranging way of telling the story: who stylistically, character-logically, psychologically fits inside the world of what you're trying to do. A lot of it, when you're casting, is trying to get yourself in the head of a director.

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

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

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

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.

What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

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.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

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 have not thought too much about the psychology or life of the character Jonas in some time.