Dean Stockwell Quotes

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

Acting is what I do with who I am.

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. Whatever people are struggling with, the struggle is often where the drama is.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

We are the total of our longings.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

I only know how to play one role: me.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

As far as my own dreams, I'm not a big dreamer, I think obviously we suppress things in life, emotions and thoughts, and we should wake up and look at that.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.

Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.

I give myself to my parts as to a lover.

We are so defined by how people see us. We're a very materialistic culture. We're a very image-driven culture. What if that goes away and you are left with, God help us, what, indeed, is your essential self?