Annie Baker Quotes

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.

My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

I think there is something about... unless you come from a really evolved family that allowed you to talk about your feelings and felt like a safe environment, then you aren't really prepared to do that when you grow up.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

If you're an actor, and you're selfish and not strong, it's difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

I have so many e-mails from people who are like, 'I never knew a family could be happy like this... My parents hate each other. I hate my brother. We fight all the time. I never wanted to have kids before I saw your family.'

I think you need a concrete, real-world metaphor to talk about inner life without feeling like a jerk.

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

How do I make the son, daughter, wife of Paterno interesting? Then you just have to start seeing people.

My whole life, I've been the one in my family that's always too emotional and too sensitive. That's, like, my role in my family.