Psychologically Quotes

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Acting changes the inner spirit. It`s fulfilling, but psychologically very costly. You can`t steal enough money in a lifetime to make up for the damage. I`m ashamed for the bitterness it created in me, but it exists. Even when you`re successful it`s hard to rise above it. It`s like a growth.

- George C. Scott

(on he and Gene Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York): Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Dustin Hoffman

For me, there`s a bigger risk trying (`Batman Begins (2005)_). Ultimately, the big point was that (Christopher Nolan), who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, "Well, he`s not a director that you would expect, therefore you`re going to get the unexpected from him". I think there`s a great potential for going very dark with it, it`s a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I`ve never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp Adam West TV series thing ("Batman" (1966)), which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic "Dark Knight" novels which delve somewhat deeper.

- Christian Bale

(On being strapped in a straitjacket and thrown in a body drawer for The Jacket (2005)) "Those situations are very challenging, emotionally and psychologically, to find yourself in a confined space like that. I thought it would be interesting. It was very painful and I kind of encouraged that pain. I spent time in an isolation tank -- lots of time -- and I would let them leave me in the jacket and leave me in the drawer for a while."

- Adrien Brody

For me, there`s a bigger risk trying Batman. Ultimately, the big point was that Chris Nolan (Memento), who you would not expect to be doing that kind of movie, was going to direct it, which is exactly what I was looking for, because you want to do something totally different from the other Batman movies. I always thought there could be a really good movie made about Batman and when I heard that Chris was doing it I thought, `Well, he`s not a director that you would expect, therefore you`re going to get the unexpected from him.` I think there`s a great potential for going very dark with it, it`s a fascinating character, very complex psychologically, which I`ve never seen done. You know, you have the two extremes, which are both very good. You can either go the very camp Adam West TV series thing, which was great in its own way, or you can go more the way of the graphic Dark Knight novels which delve somewhat deeper.

- Christian Bale

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

- Colin Firth

(Dustin Hoffman on he and Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York) Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Gene Hackman

It is psychologically unsettling. But I think we`ve made something more sophisticated than just a slasher movie, because of the family drama in it. The Fly (1986) could have been something else (meaning a cheap monster movie). But I think we raised that to something smarter. It`s a love story and something that has poetry in it and majesty and real tragedy.

- Jeff Goldblum

(about her drama training) I grew up, psychologically and emotionally. You were constantly asked to delve deep into yourself. You know, method acting and all that. In Improv you`d think to yourself, "Right. My character`s been raped, and beaten up, and now`s she`s tied up in this room". And you`d say to people, "Ooh. Could you throw me down the stairs before my improvisation and tie me up?" It wasn`t a case of acting, it was where you became the person. Ridiculous, but really good fun.

- Indira Varma

We have beaten our direct opponent for the league...psychologically it`s important because we haven`t beaten them in the league for a long time.

- Joe Cole

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It`s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. Not to put too fine a point on it, there`s something about the shame that goes with sexual exploitation, deviance, whatever. As a woman, having a baby psychologically erases it all from your body. And that, for me, was incredibly important.

- Thandie Newton

My life has always been a series of challenges and I`m psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

- Ronaldo

I am happy I was born Swedish because this means having a tough education -- at least it was in my time. But I couldn`t live there, even when I was in my 20s. Sweden is too far from the rest of the world psychologically. There you feel confined on an island.

- Ingrid Bergman

I went to Hollywood in the mid-`50s, and I would say I went out there a little too early. It was an incredible amount of attention, and I wasn`t quite mature enough psychologically and emotionally for (it).

- Anthony Franciosa

When you play for so long, you see it`s going to come to an end and you wonder, Is your talent diminishing? Is it a slump? ... He took me aside and told me there was a time in his career when he thought he`d never get another hit. He`s certainly one of the better hitting instructors I`ve ever been around. But psychologically, he started me in the right direction again.

- Cal Ripken

Make sure the people of Laramie stay healthy, or my sister Marcella will come visit you, ... With my sister, physically maybe (she can be overpowered), but mentally, psychologically she will destroy you. I don`t mess with my sisters. You think I`m tough, you should mess with my family.

- Rulon Gardner

This has been affecting me psychologically, ... I didn`t think it would hit (Dominik) this way ...

- Oscar Gutiérrez

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He`s the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it`s too late.

- Ang Lee

Psychologically, it would have been devastating for the community if Gordon Hall went to the developers. Hundreds of people contributed to the project. It was a real grassroots effort.

- Paul Bishop

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

- Simon Wiesenthal

I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

- Angela Merkel

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

- Barbara De Angelis

I`m not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It`s the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.

- Alan Varela

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.

- Ambrosia Prudhomme

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

- Andreas Gross

When consumers buy these products, and spend a lot of money, psychologically they believe in them, no matter how their skin is behaving.

- Ann Belcher

I`ve kind of gone the whole gamut in terms of dealing with kids psychologically and trying to help them get through various stages of their game mentally,

- Anne Morrison

The Giants` willingness to compromise on that issue clearly was a psychologically important breakthrough in the talks.

- Annette Wiese

Just by eating together it makes you feel psychologically closer.

- Anthony Noto

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

- Carl Gustav Jung