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Personality Quotes


"I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay."


"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."


"I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why."


"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."


"I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities."


"A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage."


"I have to choose songs that represent my personality."


"I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality."


"To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her."


"Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things."


"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."


"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality."


"Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative."


"Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality."


"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."


"Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play."


"I am a private person and that has always been my personality."


"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."


"Personality and socialization aren't the same thing."


"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."


"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent."


"I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest."


"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."



"A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal."


"If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed."


"What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine."


"The core of my personality consists of many selves."


"Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish."


"He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor."


"The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality."


"The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films."


"In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program."


"These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate."


"And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need."


"Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality."


"I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist."


"Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer."


"It's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth."


"When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown."


"Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits."


"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."


"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."


"There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done."


"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."
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