Mental Separation Quotes

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

The way I balance life and skating is by enjoying the time I spend away from the rink. When I am not on the ice, I am not focusing on skating.

I enjoy playing but the moment the game ends, football ends and you can talk to me about anything except football because I don't feel comfortable.

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

I never bring a role home with me. The moment they say, 'It's a wrap,' it's gone completely. I'm a totally ruthless professional, and life is my family, not my work.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.

I always compartmentalized so many different things.

I don't take characters home with me.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.

When I was on the court, I played. When I trained, I trained hard. But as soon as that thing was over, I switched off and enjoyed my life.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

When I'm working, I want to be the best. But when I'm out, I don't want to watch games. I don't want to talk with everybody about football. I want to talk about life - about anything else.

When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.

When I'm away with England, I don't think about anything to do with club football.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.