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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I was possessed by London.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

I play a Monk song, it's like you get possessed. And then you have to break that spell. You have to remind yourself that you are an individual, or that you aren't Thelonious Monk.