James McAvoy Quotes

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

I think hypnosis is entertaining. I believe it's real.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

I've never asked for a happy ending

The unconscious is structured like a language.