I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
I would much rather feel the physical soreness that comes with exercise than to feel the psychological soreness that comes with regret.
You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like t...
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.
I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
