Ellen Pompeo Quotes

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

I've learnt to not look that deeply into what people say as it's mostly a reflection of themselves.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

I am affected by what is around. I don't think many people would admit that.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

I'm good at reading people.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.