Zawe Ashton Quotes

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

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.

It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.

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

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'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

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'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

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.

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

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

What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides of human beings.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.