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Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

People aren’t always themselves. They’re always holding back something.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we’re all flawed.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.