Yvonne Strahovski Quotes

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.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

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

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

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

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

I try to understand people who do violence. I try to understand what they are feeling and experiencing.

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.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

People will do amazing things to ensure their survival.

Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.

I really do love psychology and philosophy but I'm no professional at these things. Because I love seeing the true side of humanity, as I've continued that, I have ultimately lent towards philosophy and psychology but it is not something in which I try to study.

When I went to prison, for three years I didn't say a word to another human being until, going into the fourth year, when I realized, 'You know what, I have to find a way to live.'

When you start to think about the drives that humans have, I think sometimes we find we are simpler than we thought and more easily manipulated.

I still ponder what gets in people's minds and souls, why they do the things they do.

I think that maybe human beings are conditioned to violence.

Bullies have a soft spot, and mean girls have a reason to be that way. It's a matter of understanding why a person is the way they are.

I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

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

I had a lot of frustrations, and I was drinking far too much, and I was just trying to survive and this is what came out of it.

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.