Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

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

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

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.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up fantasy scenarios where they're simple machines, and get hurt and do things they regret.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

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

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Villains are not fun for me to play, as such. But caricature-ish, intense behaviors that are based on real human traits are interesting. That makes an interesting story.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.

Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.