Sigmund Freud Quotes

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Art helped give me confidence.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

I'm not what I make.

For a long time, I was just a football player, but I want people to see me for who I am.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

You have to be someone.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.