Sadie Jones Quotes

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.

Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us.

I think you have to see the high highs and the low lows to get to the core of what makes us tick as people.

The human race is ill because we have no contact with the lowest level of consciousness.

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.

I go to an analyst not because I need to but because I choose to and maybe that's the difference. I don't think I have any huge neurosis, but I have questions for which I seek if not answers at least a guidance toward the answers.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.