#fantasies

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#bank #ever #fantasies #fulfill #had

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that? ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#being #dreamt #fantasies #man #never

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. ↗

— Brian Perkins

#born #death #eternal #extinction #extraordinary

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fantasies #fantasy #guess #housewife #i

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#avoid #avoiding #encouraged #ever #fantasies

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy. ↗

— Brion James

#bad #bad guy #fantasies #guy #hate

I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element, yet nudity and male fantasies have become emblematic of my work. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#become #element #fantasies #few #film

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#actor #being #did #fact #fantasies