Joan Cusack Quotes

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

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

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

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

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

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

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.

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.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

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

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.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

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

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 think politics come out of psychology.

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.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

I'm interested in character and people and motivations and things like that.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

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

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

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