Michael Fassbender Quotes

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

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.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

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

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

I like playing characters with internal problems.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

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

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

Ultimately, I'm a mess. I don't mean I'm a mess, like, emotionally - I mean, I think probably everybody's a mess. David's a mess. But. I'm talking about... I'm messy.

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.

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.

I don't think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they're good markers.

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.