Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

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

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

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.

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.

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

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

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

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.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

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 been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. Even as an adult, that's a hard thing to know. As a kid, it can be really confusing, because it's all new and you're trying to sort of make your map.

I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.