Jasmine Guy Quotes

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.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

There's no map to human behaviour.

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

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

The nature of man is intricate. The objects of society are of the greatest complexity and therefore no simple disposition or direction of power can be suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs.

I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

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.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.

Strange are the ways of human behavior.

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

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

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

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