Instinct quotes

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

“- 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 idle hands. 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

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

“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

- 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

“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

“- Ana: Why are they coming here?
- Kenneth: Memory, maybe. Instinct. Maybe they're coming for us.”

Sarah Polley - Ana
Ving Rhames - Kenneth

“Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.”
Brittany Murphy

“Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.”
Morgan Freeman - Sloan

“Desire to live still strongest instinct in man.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“Follow your intestines.”
Moon Unit Zappa - Mary Ellen

“- Sir Laurence Olivier: She's quite wonderful. No training, no craft, no guile, just pure instinct. Astonishing.
- Colin Clark: You should tell her that.
- Sir Laurence Olivier: Oh, I will. But she won't believe me. That's probably what makes her great, yet it's certainly what makes her so profoundly unhappy.”

Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier
Eddie Redmayne - Colin Clark

“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