Casey Affleck Quotes

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Listen to what people say about themselves; they will tell you everything you need to know.

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

I don't find myself intriguing.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

The only thing a man knows is himself.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

Being just yourself means you're unselfconscious in that moment. Or maybe we're all self-conscious to an extent. You meet a pretty girl, you're different from when you meet a tough kid on the street. So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you "know," and it'll be different for that reason. So far, it's an interesting ride, and I'm curious to see what I can find next.

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

I guess there were fewer differences between me and social psychologists than between me and other people in general

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.