You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character. – Anne Parillaud
There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body. – Antonio Damasio
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs – they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain – they innovate, creating more for everyone else. – Alex Tabarrok
God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks. – Clint Eastwood
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body’s reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps. – Antonio Damasio
I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blood, man. – Charlie Sheen
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It’s helpful, as a writer, to think about that. – Carlton Cuse
Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain. – Bennet Omalu
You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit. – Bikram Choudhury
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. – Arthur Conan Doyle
I can’t tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don’t know what possessed me to do that, but I did. – Brian Setzer
Kids are fabulous, but when you’re home all day with an infant that can’t talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, ‘I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.’ – Ann Leckie
As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries – stroke and trauma – affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow. – Allyson Schwartz
I’ve got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot. – Cherie Lunghi
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! – Alexander Pope
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There’s a whole new brain operation that’s being moulded by the computer. – Camille Paglia
It’s not an act. I love it. It’s totally original. People go, ‘What’s going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don’t know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain. – Charlie Sheen
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly. – Bill Viola
When I read Mike Webster’s file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder. – Bennet Omalu
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream. – Annie Besant
The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country. – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn’t around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with ‘Jurassic Park’ and its primeval-dinosaur universe. – Ben Affleck
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it’s simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, ‘I have achieved,’ but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, ‘Look, Ma, I did it!’ – Brendon Burchard
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. – Bram Stoker
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world. – Christopher Nolan