Quotes About Observation

You know, I'm not a huge fan of the concept of 'passion' when it comes to careers. Instead of trying to answer the daunting question of 'What's your passion?' it's better simply to watch what you do when you've got time of your own and nobody's looking.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I can walk down the street and have a human experience every day.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

All my work is always that exploration of human nature.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Human nature fascinates me.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

I like the cut of his jib and the glint in his eye, the arrow of his song and the beg of his question.

People are dumb. I'll never get over how dumb people are.

I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that, too, but I wouldn't understand why . I would site there with the tight elastic thread of the birthday hat parting the pudge of my underchin, with the grainy frosting of the cake bluing my teeth, and I would try to figure out why it was fun.

Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.