Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

I've always been interested in why do people behave in certain ways which are crazy from a normal point of view.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

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

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

I love people, I love studying people more than history. So whatever situation I see, then I look at, what were the people like, more than history itself.

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

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

I like to think that since I was about 19, I have studied human decision-making and problem-solving.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't acting. I have taken time off to figure out if it's what I really want to do, and it is. The only other job I'd want is to be a psychologist, as I spend most of my time analyzing people and emotions.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.