Zoe Saldana Quotes

Human beings do things for a reason, even if sometimes it's the wrong reason.

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Motives are often more important than actions

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

No matter what decision I make, I want people to know that there's a reason I made it, and it's because it was something I felt like needed to happen. I don't want people to think that I've just gone crazy.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

We want our villains and antagonists to have distinct motivations.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

Everyone has his reasons.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

There's always a reason for everything.

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.