Colin Quinn Quotes

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

Being a good actor is sort of understanding the complexity of the human psyche and also knowing that we are none of us perfect.

Every person is flawed. Do you think perfection exists? You, me, everyone - we have strengths and shortcomings; that's what makes us human.

I think the single most important, fascinating, and complex aspect of human nature is that we all know, deep down, that we are not what we ought to be - or as John Doe says in 'Seven,' 'We are not what was intended.'

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

Humanity is a comic role.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.