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Personality Quotes


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


"When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."


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


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


"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."


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


"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."


"She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust."



"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."


"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."


"It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player."


"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."


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



"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."


"My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration."



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


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


"The fact that he got to save the Gwardian's mate and managed to piss him off at the same time, well that was just a bonus and pure luck of circumstance. After all, he had gypsy blood inside of him and could not stop the satisfaction he got from pissing people off."


"Class Act.She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a feral appetite for adventure, and a savage need for primal love! She's beautifully twisted, so before you take the plunge be sure you can swim deep."


"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."



"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."


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


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


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


"As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore."


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


"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."



"Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing."


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


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


"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!"


"You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!"


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


"When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick."



"He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration."


"We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do."


"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."


"May as well have ox blood running through those veins, I added, 'You're as stubborn as one."


"I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you."



"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."


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


"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."



"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."


"I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor."


"I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook."


"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."


"I'm persnickety," I confessed. "Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend." "Do you want to know why I never married?" "The question wasn't at the top of my list," I admitted. The old woman made me meet her eye. "Listen to me; I never married because I was easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It is much better to be too easily interested."
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