Kelly Reilly Quotes

How can one know anything at all about people?

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.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

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

Acting is very anthropological for me. It makes me less judgmental.

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

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 love, I love human beings, studying them.

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

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 think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character.

People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

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

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being an actor.