Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Quotes

I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

The reason I act is because I'm trying to understand why people are as they are.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest in the human mechanism and the human psyche and what makes people tick. And yes, I think I'm particularly creative and adventurous and improvisational and spontaneous in my inner impulses and patterns and deeply curious and appetized in the unfathomably mysterious and delicious phenomena that is the human being and who we really are.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.

I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.