Angelina Jolie Quotes

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

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.

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

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

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

A good deal of our politics is psychological.

I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a story... 'The Giver' or any other... is simply an exploration of the nature of behavior: why people do what they do, how it affects others, how we change and grow, and what decisions we make along the way.

I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory.

Le mot 'psychologie'est un de ceux qu'aucun auteur d'aujourd'hui ne peut entendre prononcer a' son sujet sans baisser les yeux et rougir. The word 'psychology' is one that no author today can hear said about her work without lowering her eyes and blushing.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

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

My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.

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

I used to make my living by understanding people. And the way I learned to understand them was by observing them. I would sit in a train station or a bus station or a restaurant. And I would watch people. I would watch how they related to one another. I would try to get some insight into them and make them as predictable as I could in my mind.

Human nature fascinates me.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

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.

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