Pamela Stephenson Quotes

• Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Maintain, Objective

• I don’t think I’m generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Myself, Punishing

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Human

• I don’t like the term mid-life crisis.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Like

• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Choice

• I’ve really written my books for my husband and our family. They’ve brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I’d watch the ships coming in and going out.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Grew

• It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Powerful, Career

• Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Health, Love

  Tags in Qualify

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Ghost

• Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person’s biography.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Perfect, Impossible

• S*xual dreams aren’t usually about s*x.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Dream

• So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffer, Alone

• Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suffering

• The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one’s patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Painful, Helpful

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself

• The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it’s a sort of biblical thing. It’s something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in People, Religious

• We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn’t describe myself as an animal person.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Person

• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can’t be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impression, Serious

• There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decide, Writers And Writing

Pamela Stephenson (23)

Birth:	4th December, 1949
Nationality:	New Zealander
Profession:	Actress

About

Pamela Helen Stephenson Connolly is a New Zealand clinical psychologist, writer and actress who is now a resident in both the United Kingdom and United States. She is best known for her work as an actress and comedian during the 1980s. She has written several books, which include a biography of her husband Billy Connolly, and presented a psychology-based interview show called Shrink Rap on British television.

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