Personality Quotes

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.

It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.

I am, like anybody else, full of contradictions and personality traits, and I don't know which ones to speak from as a stand-up or what aspects of myself to ask an audience to identify with.

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

Barack Obama presents as kind of a cool character, and I think that that's his natural personality.

Models today, she explained, don't understand that to be successful you have to have a personality, intelligence, and issues that you support, and Gisele embodies these qualities.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

A lot of people that get out of prison have anti-social personality disorder, which makes them promiscuous and erratic, and they can't form ordinary relationships.

I've always liked game shows - the competitive aspect and the character-driven personalities you see.

A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

I like movies that have strong personalities, and Michel Gondry is so creative that his films are always something special to watch.

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T.V. news interview shows.

Getting up early and setting myself daily targets, even outside of acting, keeps me active and motivated in general and thus happier, which I hope translates into my personality and my work.

My daughters have strong personalities. I'm close to them but they don't really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don't ask me to do that.

I think that the media spends far too much time [on personalities].

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true to the situation and true to the character.

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

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

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

Personality is a real aphrodisiac, when somebody is charming or funny. I think certain jobs attract certain types of people.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair.

When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety.

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

She had gradually changed her name. "Jane" was too dull. Last year, she'd added a "y", becoming Jayne, which had more personality.