Human Quotes
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
