Human nature quotes

“Maybe it's not necessarily justified, this common human complaint. The feeling that we're all cut off, alienated, and alone. I don't need to go into detail, do I?”
Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
Johnny Depp

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
Charlize Theron - Libby Day

“- Johnny: No one knows what they want Jennifer, that's the human condition.
- Jennifer: Some people know what they want. I mean, they might not know how to get it but they know what they want.”
Tom Everett Scott - Johnny
Julianne Nicholson - Jennifer

“We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are?”
Jeff Bridges

“In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.”
Robert De Niro

“If you want to know the secret of being, you'll come with us.”

Neil Patrick Harris - Neil Patrick Harris

“Acting is not an art. It's a junk pile of all the arts. But in behalf of my scavenger profession I'll make this boast. An actor is much better off than a human being. He isn't stuck with the paltry fellow he is. He can always act his better and non-existent self.”
John Barrymore

“No matter whom we choose to love, be they heterosexual, homosexual, asexual, bisexual, trisexual, quadrisexual, pansexual, transexual, omnisexual or that thing where the chick ties the belt around your neck and tinkles on a ballon, it has absolutely nothing to do with who we are as people.”

Dan Aykroyd - Captain Phineas J. Tucker

“I'm human. I'm flawed. But I embrace change... and enhancement. Now there's nothing I can't do. Nothing. Nothing I can't know. Nothing I can't be.”
Michael Wincott - Dr. Osmond

“There will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. Our first instinct is to seek revenge when those we love are taken from us. But that's not who we are...”
Chris Pine - James T. Kirk

“There is so little beauty in this world, and so much suffering. Do you suppose that is what God had in mind? That is to say if there is a God at all. Perhaps there is nothing in this universe but ourselves. And our thoughts.”
Geoffrey Rush - Sir Francis Walsingham

“Follow the lead of nature - or of God, if you like your Bible stories. Male and female created to them. Be fruitful and multiply. Create a race. A manmade race upon the face of the earth.”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius

“To 'be loved' is the most basic of human needs. Like a flower, it waters the human soul. But 'to love' is a true blessing.”
Olivia Newton-Jonn

“I believe we are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation.”

Peter Sarsgaard - Stanley Milgram

“It is the doom of men that they forget.”
Nicol Williamson - Merlin

“- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: Wait until you see it.
- Norman Ellison: See what?
- Boyd 'Bible' Swan: What a man can do to another man.”
Shia LaBoeuf - Boyd 'Bible' Swan
Logan Lerman - Norman Ellison

“A man can always change things. That's what makes him different from the barnyard critters.”

Jane Darwell - Ma Stone

“The world is what you make it. And it all starts with what you make of yourself.”
Vince Vaughn - Fred Claus

“Are you a God-fearing man? That is such a strange phrase. I've always thought of God as a teacher; a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding. You see, I think what you really fear is me. Me and my kind.”

Sir Ian McKellen - Magneto

“- Eddie Jessup: I can't live with it Emily, the pain is unbearable.
- Emily Jessup: We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...”

William Hurt - Eddie Jessup
Blair Brown - Emily Jessup

“- Viper: I'm sorry, I wish I could say more, but I was hired in part for my discretion.
- Logan: I'm sure you were.
- Viper: That and a certain talent for combining biochemistry and metaphysics. High-grade toxins are my specialty. It helps to be genetically immune to every poison known to man, as I am. And immune to the toxin that is man himself...” (continue)(continue reading)
Svetlana Khodchenkova - Viper
Hugh Jackman - Logan

“What's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say its black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross-referenced that analysis with a points-based system? No! You're just attracted to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Oscar Isaac - Nathan

“Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.”
David Carradine - Bill

“It's not only the immediate agony, but the knowledge... that if you do not yield soon enough... there will be little left to identify you as a man.”
Mads Mikkelsen - Le Chiffre