Human nature quotes

“From a medical standpoint getting you to the top of Everest is really about oxygen. And the lack of it. To give you the best chance of summiting you need to prepare your bodies for the thin air up there.”
Elizabeth Debicki - Caroline MacKenzie

“- Lindsey: What are people like, on the inside?
- Powder: Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate, separated from everything.
- Linsey: And?
- Powder: And they're not. They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.”
Missy Crider - Lindsey Kelloway
Sean Patrick Flanery - Jeremy 'Powder' Reed

“Violence is in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor.”

Ted Levine - Warden

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”
Toby Jones - Ollie Weeks

“I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing. I am hardly human anymore.”
Meryl Streep - Sarah

“Look around you, Tiff! This is nuts! And I have a very high tolerence for nuts. If this is what it takes to be human, I'd rather take my chances as a supernaturally possessed doll; it's less complicated.”
Brad Dourif - Chucky

“Human beings simply aren't built to function at the cruising altitude of a 747. Okay, once we get above here, above the South Col, our bodies will be literally dying. And I mean literally dying. It's not called the Death Zone for nothing.”
Jason Clarke - Rob Hall

“- Terri Fisher: The genetic difference between men and apes is only three percent. But that three percent gave us Einstein, Mozart...
- Phil Ohlmyer: ...Jack The Ripper.”
Connie Nielsen - Terri Fisher
Jerry O'Connell - Phil Ohlmyer

“- Police: Are you classified as human?
- Korben Dallas: Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”
Lenny McLean - Police
Bruce Willis - Korben Dallas

“Don't cry. If you have become human enough to cry, then all the magic in the world cannot change you back.”

Alan Arkin - Schmendrick

“I don't want to be human! I can't even express these things properly because I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!”
Dean Stockwell - John Cavil

“How come we only ask ourselves the really big questions when something bad happens?”
Mark Wahlberg - Tommy Corn

“- Romek: Are we blessed? Or are we just the edges?
- Priest: We are all scraps, Romek, and we are all blessed the same.
- Romek: But not all the people right?”
Haley Joel Osment - Romek
Willem Dafoe - Priest

“- Dr. Jeffery Stewart: Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform. Daryl is an experiment in artificial intelligence. All I can say is he was never meant to leave here and he was certainly not to be with people like yourself.
- Turtle Fox: Holy shit! He's a robot?
- Dr. Jeffery Stewart: He's more than that Turtle. He's a lot more. See this is the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Josef Sommer - Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Danny Corkill - Turtle Fox

“I guess that's human nature, it hurts so much to be alone that we'd all rather blow-up than be single.”
Famke Janssen - Kate Welles

“Man had been created with a hole in his heart, a hole that no possession, power, or knowledge could fill. And in his infinite greed, man dreamed of expanding his dominion over the entire Earth.”
Sir John Hurt - Professor Broom

“- Tami-Lynn: Oh my god, Teddy, look at this. It says if we want to have a baby, you're gonna have to prove you're a person in a court of law.
- Ted: This is a nightmare.”
Jessica Barth - Tami-Lynn
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“Atrocities are human nature.”
Clancy Brown

“I'm much more interested in what's behind acting, which is the inquiry into the human condition.”
Barbara Harris

“I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness.”
Thomas Jane

“I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are not... that none of us are alone!”
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“You're staring at me. You think my dress is incredibly ugly? Well, it's my daddy's fault. He used to buy me these incredibly ugly clothes to keep the boys away. It didn't work... only made me want to get naked. And that's no way to keep the boys away.”
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley

“Man's a party animal. If he is doing okay nothing else matters. That's not going to change.”
Tom Sizemore - Burchenal

“- Maggie Blake: Listen, sweetie, I don't know the boy, but you have to be a bit of a dork to prefer math to a beautiful girl. You know what I'm saying?
- Belle Blake: By the time I'm done with him, he won't be able to count on his fingers.”
Michelle Pfeiffer - Maggie Blake
Dianna Agron - Belle Blake

“If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.”
Neil LaBute