Psychologist Quotes

I`m ready to ditch the movies and keep at the books. There are so many other things, and it would feel limiting to say, `Acting is it for me.`... I love psychology. That`s what I`m studying right now. It would probably be difficult, because of my current occupation, to become a clinical psychologist, but I could certainly do research. And I`d like to have a family someday, too.

All my roles are different parts of my personality. Hannah is the caretaker part of me, the psychologist in Prague Duet (1998) ... is the part of me that`s always analyzing, Guinevere`s Billie is the artistic side.

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

Since when is self-improvement a negative? Why wouldn`t I be interested in psychology? I like to read a lot of psychology books. I`m obsessed with child behavior; I would love to be a child psychologist. (On being criticized after admitting she and then-husband Ryan Phillippe have gone to couples therapy.) (Vanity Fair - September 2004 - "Regally Blonde" by Leslie Bennetts)

My mother`s a psychologist, my stepfather`s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad`s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don`t know anyone who doesn`t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

Before I tried LSD, I`d been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it you can`t give up the fight.

About her character Deanna Troi on _`Star Trek: The Next Generation`_: "We knew that she ate chocolates and that she worked out, but that was really boring. I wanted to know what she did when she went on the holodeck. We basically never saw her off duty or going on holiday. We knew she was a psychologist--and a pretty good one--but that was all we knew about her."

I have a brother who`s a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it`s certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you`ve got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, 'no hablo ingles.'�

If the coach is good, I don`t think a psychologist is needed.

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.