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Personality Quotes


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."


"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 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."


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


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


"We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people."


"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."


"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."


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


"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."


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


"If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical."


"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."


"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."


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


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


"She's all brute force and '90s clichés."


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


"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."


"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."


"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."


"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."


"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."


"For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way, it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it."


"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."


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


"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."


"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."


"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."
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