Noam Chomsky Quotes

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

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

I like stories with lots of psychology.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

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

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

I'm interested in writing that explores all sides 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.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

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

Things happen in 'If This is a Man' that are beyond ordinary daily experience, but it is still us to whom they are happening, and the understanding Levi seeks is no different in kind from that sought by Shakespeare in 'King Lear', or Conrad in 'The Heart of Darkness'.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.

It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.