Instinct quotes

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”
Frank Capra

“When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.”
Humphrey Bogart - Frank McCloud

- Devon Miles: I can't really read music.
- Mr. Wade: Oh, that's all right, son. Some people can't read the sign that says "toilet". Doesn't mean they don't know how to use it.
Nick Cannon - Devon Miles
J. Anthony Brown - Mr. Wade

“Dr. Jaquith says that tyranny is sometimes expression of the maternal instinct. If that's a mother's love, I want no part of it.”
Bette Davis - Charlotte Vale

“To live is to love. All reasons against it. All instincts for it.”
Paul Hogan - Porter Ricks

“I want so much to make things right but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don’t know can hurt you.”
Nina Dobrev - Elena Gilbert

“Good instincts are earned by making mistakes.”
Michael Rooker - Clyde

“- Agent H: What do you think? Press the red button? I think it’s hyperdrive.
- Agent M: No, no, no. I think hyperdrive is blue.
- Agent H: Well, you know, sometimes you have to trust your gut.
- Agent M: My gut, not yours!”
Chris Hemsworth - Agent H
Tessa Thompson - Agent M

“- Young Arthur (13): I already know how to swim.
- Nuidis Vulko: Not even close. You have to forget all the teaching of the surface world, go deeper to discover your Atlantean instincts.”
Otis Dhanji - Young Arthur (Thirteen Years Old)
Willem Dafoe - Vulko

“Religion has ruined human beings, because your God teaches people to deny the tiger in themselves. Turns us all into a throng of slaves, too shameful to acknowledge it.”
Matt Dillon - Jack

“- Jim Stone: [indicating bail statement for $200,000 cash] What do you think?
- Jim's Father: Well, I think there's a lot more to making a cop than just paper.
-Jim Stone: Yes, but I just thought it was unusual.
- Jim's Father: It is ... You know, a good cop is going to look at it and know exactly what to do.”
Nicolas Cage - Stone
Jerry Lewis - Stone's Father

All you got to do is use your instincts. How do you think a lion knows to tackle a gazelle? It's written, it's a code written in his DNA, says: "tackle the gazelle". And believe it or not, in every man there's a code written that says: "tackle drunk bitches".

Romany Malco - Jay

“He'd always have to do some kind of art, y'know, usually defacing something. He never had idlehands. It just came out of him. He had to express himself.”
Krist Novoselic - Himself

- Patti: Think of your inner voice.
- Frances: Inner voice: ”What the fuck am I doing on a gay tour of Tuscany?”.
Sandra Oh - Patti
Diane Lane - Frances

“I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.”
Robert De Niro

“Even before I met you I had an instinct about you. Once I saw you were a woman with profound static cling I wanted to be that force around you.”

Gabriel Macht - Johnny

“- Francine: What are they doing? Why do they come here?
- Stephen: Some kind of instinct. Memory of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.”

Gaylen Ross - Francine
David Emge - Stephen

“- Jason Bourne: Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports and a gun? Who has a bank account number in their hip? I come in here, and the first thing I'm doing is I'm catching the sightlines and looking for an exit.
- Marie: I see the exit sign, too. I'm not worried. I mean, you were shot. People do all kinds of weird and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matt Damon - Jason Bourne
Franka Potente - Marie

“They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake.”
Vin Diesel - Richard B. Riddick

“- Mr. Ray: Migration is about going home.
- Dory: Home.
- Mr. Ray: Which is where you’re from.
- Nemo: How do the stingrays all know where to go?
- Mr. Ray: Instinct, something deep inside you that feels so familiar that you have to listen to it.”
Bob Peterson - Mr. Ray
Ellen Lee DeGeneres - Dory
Hayden Rolence - Nemo

“Every bird instinct I have says don't follow a dog on wheels.”

Albert Brooks - Tiberius

“By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live, how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.”

Chris Cooper - John Laroche

“I am an animal who dreamed he was a man. But the dream is over and the beast is awake. And I will come for you, because it's my nature.”
Liev Schreiber - Victor Creed

“I like to improvise. It's like playing Jazz.”
Iris Apfel - Herself

“A machine doesn't improvise well because you cannot program a fear of death. Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration.”
Matt Damon - Mann