Adam Sandler Quotes

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

If you're playing the character, you could say to yourself in 16 different ways, What if that didn't bother me? What if I knew exactly what he was talking about? What if I didn't get excited?

Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

The only way I've been able to keep my sanity is to pull back when I feel like it's time to pull back.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

I have really focused on mindfulness. That helps me make better choices both physically, psychologically, and emotionally.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting.

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

I tend to keep things that bother me clandestine... well-hidden. I'm also not very good at recognising the reasons that change my moods - they just seem to happen, which is not great for those around me.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

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

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.