Jordan Peele Quotes

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Every man has a wild animal in him.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Our species likes being social.

I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.

Human interaction is not a simple thing.

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

Man is a social animal.

Once you wake up the human animal, you can't put it back to sleep again.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.