Brad Dourif Quotes

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Since my dimples only appear whenever I smile, facing everything in life with that smile is a wonderful feeling. Eyes are also the window to one's self. Just a look can reflect your identity and experiences.

I feel like I learned that I am so much stronger than I ever thought I was, not just emotionally, but physically.

I know how strong I am mentally, how I work on myself.

That tide of insecurity would come in and out over the years, sometimes stranding me for a while but occasionally lifting me just beyond what I thought I could acomplish. Either way, it would wash over the same bedrock certainty: ultimately, I know myself.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

If you are not conscious of all of the different parts of yourself, the part of yourself that is the strongest will win out over the other parts. Its intention will be the one that the personality uses to create its reality.

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.

Consciousness of our strength increases it.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

The real man lies in the depths of subconscious.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.