Peter Graves Quotes

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

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

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

I like to think of myself as kind of a sculptor, only I sculpt people.

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.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

I love to think about and therefore talk about why people do what they do. That's kind of why I like being an actor.