Jeff Baena Quotes

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

The ego is not master in its own house.

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.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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.

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

I really work on paying attention to the clues my self is giving myself. For instance, I think of myself in the third person. That allows me to manage myself better.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

In actual fact, I've never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?