Personality Quotes

‘Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.’ – Bruce Lee

‘Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.’ – Shawn Ashmore

‘A beautiful face with a sexy body is a dime a dozen in showbiz. When you have magnetic personality, you beat everybody else.’ – Heart Evangelista

‘Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality.’ – Gianluigi Buffon

‘The way you dress is an expression of your personality.’ – Alessandro Michele

‘Your personality is what makes you sexy.’ – Mollie King

‘Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.’ – Willard Scott

‘Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.’ – Paul P. Harris

‘My personality is definitely calm and chill.’ – Sasheer Zamata

‘To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.’ – John Strachan

‘I’m a handsome man with a charming personality.’ – Gabe Newell

‘In tough times, that’s when you see true colours and personality.’ – Didier Deschamps

‘People often only see one side to someone’s personality, but there are levels.’ – Ross Lynch

‘I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.’ – Erich Fromm

‘There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.’ – Shakira

‘Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘A magnetic personality doesn’t necessarily indicate a good heart.’ – Laura Linney

‘I have an unfortunate personality.’ – Orson Welles

‘The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.’ – Norman O. Brown

‘Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Personality is lower than partiality.’ – Goldwin Smith

‘Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.’ – Epictetus

‘Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.’ – Salvador Dali

‘I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it’s a lethal cocktail.’ – Graydon Carter

‘I’ve always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.’ – K. Flay

‘Being confident is the key to life. Don’t be afraid to be you! I’m super different from a lot of kids my age with style and personality, and I’m OK with it. And if you are OK with it, everyone else will be, too. Just be yourself.’ – Leo Howard

‘All my life I’ve felt quite misunderstood because of my personality.’ – Yungblud

‘Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.’ – Sophie Tucker

‘Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.’ – Natalie Portman

‘What you have, what you are – your looks, your personality, your way of thinking – is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.’ – Jack Lord

‘I think each shoot has a different personality.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Exploring the dark side of my characters’ personality is my forte.’ – Vijay Deverakonda

‘Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat’s personality is never bet on a human’s. He demands acceptance on his own terms.’ – Lloyd Alexander

‘I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Personality is everything in art and poetry.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that’s not my true personality either. It’s the personality of a guy who hasn’t been able to say what he wanted to say.’ – Chris Rock

‘Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.’ – Jenna Dewan

‘Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.’ – Chevy Chase

‘My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.’ – Katy Perry

‘The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.’ – Paul Cezanne

‘I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there’s that.’ – Don Rickles

‘I have a personality type, but it’s not like I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, short and brunette. That’s what I like. All the time.” – Dylan O’Brien

‘Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.’ – Laurette Taylor

‘I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.’ – Will Smith

‘When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘I’ve always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they’d still say I’m a dark personality.’ – Tim Burton

‘Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.’ – Quentin Tarantino

‘An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.’ – Haile Selassie

‘I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, I’ve self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.’ – Trisha Paytas

‘We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.’ – Albert Camus

‘The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.’ – Joan D. Vinge

‘If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsover.’ – David Letterman

‘Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘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.’ – Mae West

‘I don’t think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I’d like to be considered a playful person to everyone.’ – Kim Tae-hyung

”Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not.’ – Dale Archer

‘It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.’ – Steven Biko

‘I was always a strong personality. I was never an introvert.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.’ – Adele

‘Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She’d won the Olympics in 1976. She was America’s sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.’ – Kristi Yamaguchi

‘When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.’ – Timothy Leary

‘I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don’t want a girl who’s too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I’m saying.’ – Josh Hutcherson

‘Personality and socialization aren’t the same thing.’ – Steven Pinker

‘My dad’s cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.’ – Tess Gerritsen

‘But the more that people got to know me and my personality, the more I connected with my fans and made friends, and people got to see more of my life.’ – Loren Gray

‘The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.’ – Peter De Vries

‘Zidane transmits a very clear idea to the players. He doesn’t need to give a 20 minute motivational talk, he doesn’t need it. With his presence alone, he achieves what he wants – his personality is synonymous with success.’ – Toni Kroos

‘I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters – to make them personalities.’ – Walt Disney

‘There is nothing more beautiful than personality wrinkles.’ – Emilia Wickstead

‘We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain – grief, despair, depression, dementia – is less accessible to treatment. It’s connected to who we are – our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.’ – Richard Eyre

‘People have interpretations of what you’re supposed to be like. If you’re unattractive and overweight, you must have a great personality. If you’re attractive, then you must not be the nicest person. People are always taken aback that I’m easygoing but not necessarily stupid.’ – Mila Kunis

‘A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn’t fully belong, that my parents didn’t belong.’ – Jhumpa Lahiri

‘I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.’ – Tom Ford

‘A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘Nobody’s irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we’ve had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I’d like to see that diminish.’ – William Clay Ford, Jr.

‘I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.’ – Roberto Cavalli

‘I think it’s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.’ – Hope Solo

‘If I tried to describe my personality, I’d start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and believing in magic for years and years.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘I’m way more attracted to character stuff and darker roles. It’s just my personality, I guess.’ – Travis Fimmel

‘I act for free, but I demand a huge salary as compensation for all the annoyance of being a public personality. In that sense, I earn every dime I make.’ – Michelle Pfeiffer

‘Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘Every different horse has a different personality, like a human.’ – Nikola Jokic

‘Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.’ – Frank Stella

‘I have a strong personality, and I say what I think.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.’ – Talcott Parsons

‘I don’t want to be a personality.’ – Grace Kelly

‘Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.’ – Ben Affleck

‘It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.’ – George Orwell

‘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.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother’s a worrier, and I’m a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.’ – Michael Mina

‘My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.’ – Mitski

‘The women I draw all have the same sort of personality. I can’t draw gentle girls; I only know how to draw ones who are strong-willed.’ – Akira Toriyama

‘Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.’ – Kate Chopin

‘Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man’s whole personality, sensibility and ability.’ – Shinichi Suzuki

‘It’s not about charisma and personality, it’s about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.’ – Steve Jobs

‘I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.’ – Lorraine Hansberry

‘When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can’t help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.’ – Novak Djokovic

‘I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.’ – Vanessa Williams

‘The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.’ – Philip Treacy

‘As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.’ – John Van Hamersveld

‘Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘Bullying leaves permanent psychological scarring and young people become adept at learning what hurts, verbally and psychologically. Looks, personality and status are all easy targets, and particularly difficult to change.’ – Dawn Foster

‘Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one’s personality.’ – Victor Garber

‘It’s that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player.’ – Anna Kournikova

‘You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it’s a role that’s underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.’ – Harvey Fierstein

‘Humility is no substitute for a good personality.’ – Fran Lebowitz

‘Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.’ – Lev Vygotsky

‘The tragedy for comedians is there’s nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It’s almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.’ – Jimmy Carr

‘Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.’ – Trevor Dunn

‘I have a very addictive personality, so I’m even careful about wanting more of anything than I need – even chocolate.’ – Dave Gahan

‘I was interested in Prozac from a personal point of view because I can be a bit moody – things do get on top of me sometimes – so I was quite keen to find out what it would do to my personality.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘A trap in dealing with difficult people is getting wrapped up in their personality. When we can stay objective and remove ourselves from other people’s roller-coaster psychology, we have a much better chance of moving through the situation positively.’ – Tara Stiles

‘I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it’s ever malicious. I don’t think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I’m a bad guy. I like to think I’m a good guy.’ – Josh Rosen

‘A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.’ – George Herbert Mead

‘You can’t fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.’ – Usher

‘We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘People love to throw stones at me, and I get it. It’s fun to make fun of me, because I put myself out there. I’m a large personality, and I got the funny bone; I voice my opinion, and then people get upset.’ – Wendy Williams

‘I’m not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.’ – Justin Gaethje

‘My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It’s a statement – not to everyone else, more to myself. I’m just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.’ – Pamela Anderson

‘As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn’t matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife’s Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.’ – Jim Gaffigan

‘I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player’s personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.’ – Vladimir Kramnik

‘An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.’ – Daniel J. Boorstin

‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’ – Bayard Rustin

‘To describe someone as a pessimist is to issue an insult, whereas to be labelled an optimist is to get a pat on the back. To dismiss someone’s argument as pessimistic is to suggest it is the product of a personality disorder, rather than careful analysis.’ – David Olusoga

‘Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.’ – David Soul

‘If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.’ – Bruce Barton

‘If I see something that’s extremely challenging, I’m like, ‘That seems really hard. Let’s try it.’ It’s just my personality.’ – Condola Rashad

‘Nobody’s reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality – the way I treat all people.’ – Mark Fuhrman

‘When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I’d say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.’ – Sara Khan

‘My best personality trait that I think I’m very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I’ll develop my radio personality.’ – Gracie Allen

‘I used to be naive. I didn’t realize the value of being a whole performer… People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.’ – AJ Lee

‘I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I’m kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.’ – Sofia Richie

‘My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.’ – Dolores Huerta

‘I don’t care about being a literary personality – that doesn’t appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn’t appeal to me. I actually don’t feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, ‘Whatever.” – Ottessa Moshfegh

‘I have this personality, where I’m a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone, I have a so much to say.’ – Eli Drake

‘You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can’t be fat and healthy.’ – Susan Powter

‘Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘A fragrance that matches the personality of the man or woman who wears it is an integral part of the memory that you have of him or her. It goes without saying that it’s a formidable weapon of seduction.’ – Dree Hemingway

‘I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, ‘No, girl. You’re actually nailing it. All these things are great.” – Bob the Drag Queen

‘I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ. I thought I was always going to have to wear skirts over my knees, not be able to listen to music, and have no personality. Fortunately, it’s so completely opposite.’ – Justine Bateman

‘As I am a film personality, I feel it would be best to be an independent candidate. Thus if I decide to contest it won’t be under the symbol of any political party.’ – Balachandra Menon

‘Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality. I do.’ – Kaley Cuoco

‘Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it’s about sporting achievements and it’s about personality, then I’m a winner hands down.’ – Tyson Fury

‘People’s mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore – on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.’ – Dorothy L. Sayers

‘We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.’ – Konstantinos Karamanlis

‘Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.’ – Amy Lowell

‘Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior’s craziness and weird personality and Sting’s coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.’ – Jeff Hardy

‘I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It’s a river that immediately presents to the traveler, ‘I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.” – William Least Heat-Moon

‘Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It’s just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.’ – Kajal Aggarwal

‘I think any time there’s a change in leadership there’s a different personality, there’s a different style involved with it, different demeanor.’ – Ryan Day

‘I know some brands second-guess working with me because I’m a boy that likes makeup. I think brands shouldn’t just appreciate boys that wear makeup, but they should embrace it. And I feel like some brands forget they need personality. I have plenty of it.’ – Bretman Rock

‘Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man’s name live for thousands of years.’ – Denis Diderot

‘A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.’ – Michael Medved

‘Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you’re playing through your own experience – so we’re all different.’ – Ian Mckellen

‘My clothes are an extension of my personality. I’d look awful in ladylike dresses.’ – Carol Channing

‘I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.’ – Halsey

‘I’m sure I’m very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.’ – Bob Geldof

‘In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don’t have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.’ – Hunter Schafer

‘Partying isn’t every aspect to my personality.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.’ – Sofia Vergara

‘People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They are generally the kind to hold hands and cry. It’s just a different personality type.’ – Eric Whitacre

‘Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming – he never acted as if he was powerful or famous.’ – Patch Adams

‘Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.’ – Kevin Hart

‘If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.’ – M. Esther Harding

‘When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.’ – Taylor Swift

‘When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.’ – Phil Knight

‘Becoming a mother doesn’t always change every aspect of your personality.’ – Anna Torv

‘Physically? If you’ve got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginning. As far as personality, I’m attracted to really shy girls. Someone who knows who they are and is very genuine. That is just so sexy to me.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.’ – Betty White

‘I’m not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I’m a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality.’ – Kevin Peter Hall

‘I have a fearless but neutral personality.’ – Yani Tseng

‘My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.’ – Esther McVey

‘I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denial to pretend I wasn’t born with a personality for divorce. Whatever the opposite of amicable is, that’s how my breakups tend to play out.’ – Chelsea Handler

‘I’ve portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.’ – Eleanor Parker

‘Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.’ – William Moulton Marston

‘There is an amazing power getting to know your inner self and learning how to use it and not fight with the world. If you know what makes you happy, your personality, interests and capabilities, just use them, and everything else flows beautifully.’ – Juhi Chawla

‘A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman – it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘Margo Harshman, who plays Delilah, is fantastic. I couldn’t have a more wonderful person to work with. She’s just the best, and personality wise, it’s like she’s family.’ – Sean Murray

‘It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.’ – Alfred Loisy

‘Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don’t.’ – Jason Statham

‘My career expertise is as a psychometrician – somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘I’m such a Type A personality – when it comes to a road trip, I plan my food so far in advance. I roll hard with a cooler. I don’t mess around. I want to avoid ending up eating fast food. I try to stay away from that.’ – Justin Timberlake

‘People who know your work and know your personality, they know your strengths and weaknesses. A director like Guillermo del Toro, he knows more about me than I do. I trust him when he tells me what part I’m going to be playing in something, because he’s envisioned that that can only be done by me. He knows it.’ – Doug Jones

‘I can’t tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.’ – Alberto Salazar

‘Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.’ – Keerthy Suresh

‘I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.’ – Dwayne Johnson

‘My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.’ – Joaquin Phoenix

‘Things that I now recognise as just part of my personality – willfulness and assertiveness, maybe even a bit of aggressiveness – these are things that I had been raised to think of as masculine features. I always thought there was probably something wrong with me.’ – Tara Westover

‘I think my friend Tom Hanks knows me. He understands me very well. He’s always had a sort of parental feeling toward me. He knows I’m a big mush ball, which is just part of my personality.’ – John Travolta

‘I’ve got that personality where I’ve always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it’s innate.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘My personality is energetic, fun, yet slightly psychotic.’ – Yungblud

‘I’m very physical. It’s an important part of being a woman – feeling good about yourself and really being in tune with your personality.’ – Summer Glau

‘To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own – it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.’ – Cliff Shaw

‘Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘Following the example of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Seger, I wanted to have a band, a sound and a personality, yet maintain a singular position of being able to control and motivate the flow of things.’ – Billy Squier

‘I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I’m pleased the stuff on the page isn’t inside me any more.’ – Joanne Harris

‘All I can say is every relationship is different, and every personality, and everyone handles every couple’s social media differently.’ – Molly Qerim

‘Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality… and I have tried to stay true to each one of them; each is enjoyable in their own way!’ – Rana Daggubati

‘A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage’s brain. It’s kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It’s not a part of the brain that’s necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.’ – Sam Kean

‘The most fascinating powers don’t mean a thing if the guy’s poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won’t hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it’s his motivation that makes him the character he is.’ – Kurt Busiek

‘The combination between the speed, personality, and being able to temper your emotions in both directions is a great ingredient.’ – Toto Wolff

‘When I was younger I had a gut feeling that I was going to use my personality in some way, but I didn’t know how. But I always had an outgoing personality. That was the one thing that I was known for.’ – Emma Chamberlain

‘A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.’ – Herbert Read

‘The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.’ – Timothy Leary

‘I’m addicted to something at all times. Like, it’s always music, but maybe sometimes it’s a pair of pants or something else. That’s just how my personality works.’ – Mac Miller

‘The distinction is large in my mind. The gay police captain is eventually going to be wearing hot pants and singing ‘YMCA.’ The police captain who happens to be gay is going to be a huge collection of personality characteristics and motivations.’ – Andre Braugher

‘In 1993, 89 of the ‘Fortune’ top 100 companies were administering the Myers-Briggs test to their employees. The philosophy behind personality tests is that they don’t want you to be in the wrong kind of job. The tests have been completely exposed as nonsense.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘I felt really happy to be able to film together with Korea’s most beautiful actress. Everyone thinks it’s because of her outward appearance that Song Hye-kyo became famous, but after working together, I realized her inner heart and personality are also good. Moreover, she has lots of acting experience, and I actually did learn a lot from her.’ – Song Joong-ki

‘Molde fits me very well; Man United fits me very well because it’s in me. It’s in your personality. It’s ingrained in you. I understand the club.’ – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

‘I’d like people to understand that I do have some personality.’ – Peyton Manning

‘As far as the sexy quotient goes, I think it’s not just the physical attributes or money, but talent, a great personality coupled with a good sense of humor that matters. The last quality is especially important to me.’ – Shibani Dandekar

‘The ‘Art of Charm’ podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it’s the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him.’ – David Hepworth

‘I honestly never considered myself an actor. An actor would be someone like Paul Muni or Spencer Tracy. I was more of a personality.’ – Gene Autry

‘You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!’ – Douglas Wilson

‘My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.’ – Claes Oldenburg

‘I’m not here to try and impress anyone or make anyone mad, I’m just going in there and doing what I love, and hopefully people can appreciate what I’m there for, and I’m not trying to be Hollywood star or a Hollywood personality or something.’ – Rory MacDonald

‘You don’t want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.’ – Amy Landecker

‘To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they’re not afraid to let show.’ – Blake Shelton

‘President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him.’ – Hope Hicks

”Friday’ is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.’ – Rebecca Black

‘As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.’ – Pawan Kalyan

‘When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn’t he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn’t need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.’ – Christopher Fowler

‘It’s really shocking to see what the military can do, strip you of any personality, turn you into an aggressive, sociopathic sadist before even going into a battlefield.’ – Abby Martin

‘You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited… No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.’ – Mahesh Babu

‘If being a skateboarder were a personality type and not actually an athletic activity, then I’d say I’m a skateboarder. But I don’t ride one. I’m a bicycle person.’ – Erika Christensen

‘The thing is when you play a character it’s the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there’s gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it’s the personality that comes across.’ – Alex Pettyfer

‘The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.’ – George Orwell

‘It’s silly to have a prototype, because one inevitably falls for someone unexpected. My only criterion is she shouldn’t just look nice; she must have a personality, too.’ – Arjun Kapoor

‘As far as I’m concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.’ – Tom Peters

‘Everyone’s personal style evolves based on upbringing, exposure, influences, personality, etc. Style is subjective.’ – Asin

‘A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.’ – Hazrat Inayat Khan

‘One of my favorite L.A. movies is ‘Ed Wood,’ and it’s about how Bela Lugosi went from being this movie star personality to living in a little bungalow with his cats in the valley where, if you walked by, you’d have no idea. He’d come out and get his paper, and you’d go, ‘That guy looks familiar.” – Shane Black

‘My personality doesn’t interest me.’ – Andrei A. Gromyko

‘You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.’ – Viswanathan Anand

‘We’re on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we’re toggling between them. That’s just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.’ – Walter Kirn

‘Arjun Reddy’s fits of rage, his ill-tempered responses towards the girl he loves… I think we all have these dark areas in our personality.’ – Vijay Deverakonda

‘Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude.’ – Don Rickles

‘I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody’s religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person’s religious practices.’ – Kangana Ranaut

‘My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I’m in sync with myself and I’m transparent, just like my designs.’ – Elie Saab

‘To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.’ – Ameen Rihani

‘I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You’d be like, ‘My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.’ I feel like I would clean up with patients. That’s kind of a cocky thing to say.’ – Mindy Kaling

‘Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It’s a personality.’ – Philip Treacy

‘The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.’ – Erich Fromm

‘People want to create a space that feels like them – one that’s deeply rooted in their personality. That’s important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That’s why I think every material – down to your faucet – needs to serve a function and feel personal.’ – Jeremiah Brent

‘I’ve never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.’ – Robert De Niro

‘The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frightened parts of your personality that are active – in other words, to learn to distinguish love from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.’ – Gary Zukav

‘I don’t want my personality to overshadow my talent.’ – Cardi B

‘What’s the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That’s what I wanna know!’ – Parker Posey

‘You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.’ – Henny Youngman

‘You know, working with puppets – there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.’ – John Pinette

”Deep Red’ (1975) is my favorite movie. The character David Hemmings plays is very much based on my own personality. It was a very strong film, very brutal, and of course the censors were upset. It was cut by almost an hour in some countries.’ – Dario Argento

‘I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three B’s: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities.’ – Alice Walton

‘A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.’ – Oscar Wilde

‘I know O.J. better than anyone on the legal team. There are so many things I know about his personality. My job is really strategy and liaison between the lawyers and O.J.’ – Robert Kardashian

‘Be comfortable; be you. What’s most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you can’t go wrong!’ – Sonakshi Sinha

‘Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.’ – Vladimir Kramnik

‘I’m not a stereotypically beautiful woman, and I’m so happy that I’m not. I’ve seen those ladies – the need to be attractive at all times is ghastly. Also, in your twenties, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.’ – Miranda Hart

‘I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.’ – Mike Posner

‘In ‘Ratatouille,’ there are two different themes that express the two sides of Remy’s personality: the creative side: the chef, and the ‘thief’ side: his nature as a mouse.’ – Michael Giacchino

‘The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can’t be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office – that all of the world’s problems aren’t his predecessor’s fault.’ – Sarah Palin

‘You know, you’ve got serious pieces, you’ve got light pieces, you’ve got cooking segments, you’ve got health-related topics, so it’s not as if they’ve had a unique personality from the get-go.’ – Katie Couric

‘Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it.’ – Lukas Foss

‘San Siro is a tricky stadium. If you have the right personality, it helps you. But if you don’t have the right personality, it can be very hard to play in San Siro.’ – Paolo Maldini

‘When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won’t happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It’s the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.’ – Sudha Murty

‘The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.’ – Benjamin Jowett

‘A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.’ – Elizabeth Gillies

‘The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘When you truly believe in your idea or your company or yourself, then you don’t need to have a huge ego or a huge personality.’ – Dan Pena

‘I have a stronger personality than Shah Rukh. He is an entity on his own, and I don’t consider him a superstar when I’m with him in the house. He’s just my husband, and I respect him as that.’ – Gauri Khan

‘I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I’m cured. It’s a very inconsistent personality trait.’ – Chris Hemsworth

‘They say multitasking is a female trait, but it’s not about gender; it’s about personality type.’ – Victoria Coren Mitchell

‘I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality.’ – Marc Newson

‘I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.’ – Kevin Hart

‘Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.’ – Leslie Howard

‘When you see me on TV, that’s about as close to my real personality as you can get.’ – John Cena

‘When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde!’ – Amy Adams

‘When we have gay characters on TV, they’re just, kind of, gay for the sake of being gay. That’s their personality. That’s their whole backstory, that’s their future story, that’s their present story – it’s just gay. Nobody’s just gay.’ – Ncuti Gatwa

‘Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.’ – Albert II, Prince of Monaco

‘Sexiness is all about your personality, being genuine and confident, and being a good person.’ – Erin Heatherton

‘Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There’s some evidence that you can have both.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who’s far removed from your personality.’ – Regina King

‘I’m disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It’s become so much about personality.’ – Spencer Tracy

‘Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the ’50s and ’60s, where things started. That’s how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!’ – Steven Van Zandt

‘Because I relate to the character a lot, my personality has changed after playing the role of Kang Dong-goo.’ – Lee Je-hoon

‘Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.’ – C. Wright Mills

‘I didn’t like England. I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren’t understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.’ – Jane Campion

‘Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there’s a certain acceptance that sets in; you’re no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.’ – Doc Severinsen

‘If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.’ – John Bytheway

‘The best pop songs are the ones that show that person’s personality. It’s harder to do those singles because the stars, moon and sun have to align and the audience have to be ready, but it’s worth waiting for it.’ – MO

‘It’s a special person – and personality – who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘Like to me, I did the ‘Harajuku’ stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it’s not toning my personality back, it’s just showing like I don’t only have to do that.’ – Nicki Minaj

‘The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.’ – Georg Simmel

‘I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That’s the process.’ – David Sanborn

‘I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians… it’s essential that one should keep an eye on one’s own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion – how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.’ – Dilip Kumar

‘In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.’ – Richard Gere

‘Ever since I was a teenager, I always had a very strong sense of my own personal style. Kind of for better or for worse – actually I don’t think it’s ever been for worse. The way that I dress has always been a pretty accurate reflection of my personality and my life.’ – Busy Philipps

‘I wouldn’t use the word ‘scared’ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.’ – Jerry Seinfeld

‘Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘I’m not good-looking enough, and I don’t have the personality it takes to play myself like the big box-office stars.’ – Van Heflin

‘I love Kanye West. I think he’s a visionary. He’s one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.’ – Halsey

‘That excitement on the court, I’m the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That’s kind of my personality, that’s how I’ve been.’ – James Harden

‘Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.’ – Cafu

‘I’ve had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.’ – Alan Moore

‘Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.’ – Hans Hofmann

‘I’m never entirely happy. That’s just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.’ – Martin Henderson

‘You often hear when you talk to guys in our industry, that this is my personality, I just turn the volume up, but over the years, I’ve really become me. No volume turned up, no nothing. I’ve been able to go out there and just be myself. It’s through solid performance after solid performance that people just take you for who you are.’ – John Cena

‘I am quite loud and bolshie. I’m a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.’ – Adele

‘All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.’ – Darci Lynne Farmer

‘I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.’ – Paige VanZant

‘The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.’ – Maria Montessori

‘I’ve always wanted to wear black lipstick, but I think you have to have like a really cool personality.’ – Taylor Tomlinson

‘I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.’ – Billie Jean King

‘I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.’ – Darrell Hammond

‘I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman’s ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.’ – Harry Knowles

‘I have good personality, I think.’ – Juan Soto

‘I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.’ – Florence Welch

‘My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.’ – Barbara Corcoran

‘Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.’ – Gordon Ramsay

‘Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck’s personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.’ – Juice Newton

‘A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character – you try to be yourself.’ – Joseph D. Pistone

‘When I’m not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it’s totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.’ – Erin Wasson

‘I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven’t had very good modeling in submission.’ – Faye Wattleton

‘Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let’s say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don’t pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn’t go with my personality.’ – Victoria de los Angeles

‘I’m just showing my personality in my clothing.’ – Dwyane Wade

‘What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia – something that resists rapid change.’ – Simon Travaglia

‘The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.’ – E. M. Forster

‘I’ve always avoided publicity. I’ve never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don’t strive for it, because I don’t think it’s important whether I’m good copy or not. The two can go together, if that’s your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.’ – Chuck Noll

‘I’m not going to have the TV personality and be like, ‘There’s no bitterness. There’s no ugliness.’ There’s bitterness. There’s ugliness. There’s pain. There’s greed. There’s malice, and there’s hurt. That’s all good stuff for any kind of art. I’m not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.’ – Pete Holmes

‘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.’ – Elvis Costello

‘Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances – circumstances not unlike our own – and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.’ – Mother Angelica

‘Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.’ – Tom Segura

‘The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.’ – Rudolf Steiner

‘My personality is humongous.’ – Cardi B

‘I’m a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I’m home and haven’t done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.’ – Britney Spears

‘I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like ‘Oprah’ and ‘Ellen,’ are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.’ – Jane Pauley

‘Growing up in New Orleans as Archie Manning’s son, I felt like a target, and I’ve always known that whatever I’d do, people would hear about it. So I’ve had my guard up, and maybe that’s molded my personality.’ – Peyton Manning

‘I’m not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I’m a female athlete personality.’ – Gabrielle Reece

‘People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.’ – Marvin Bower

‘The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.’ – Gary Zukav

‘I’ve always kind of just had a big personality and a voice that I wanted heard.’ – JoJo Siwa

‘For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.’ – Georg Simmel

‘If you’re a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite – but it’s the reality, and part of my personality – yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.’ – Russell Crowe

‘Let’s face it. I’m not a personality or the handsome actor type. When you have those God-given assets, you don’t have to worry if your acting leaves something to be desired. You can just play yourself on the screen and the public comes flocking to your pictures.’ – Van Heflin

‘We really do have a lot of personality in WWE. You have to, to be in this job. You showcase a lot of personality.’ – John Cena

‘I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulnerability to it, his technical ability was amazing, and so much of his personality would come out through his voice. I’m not even a guy to buy Queen records, really, and I still think he’s one of the best.’ – Chris Cornell

‘Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.’ – Hjalmar Schacht

‘I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman’s personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.’ – Vera Wang

‘I am interested in the idea of ‘taste.’ And by ‘taste,’ I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.’ – Olivier Theyskens

‘It’s impossible to capture every single facet of someone’s personality in a film.’ – Bernard Sumner

‘I’ll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you’ve got to have that mentality and personality. I’d rather be the bass guy.’ – Michael Anthony

‘He’s computerized, but I won’t let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.’ – William Daniels

‘I grew up off ‘The Simple Life’ where they really made just being a personality a thing.’ – Tana Mongeau

‘I’ve done so many interviews that I’ve gotten past the ego and the personality.’ – John Travolta

‘My personality, the person I am, I don’t like saying no to anything.’ – Ja Morant

‘A team takes on the personality of the head coach.’ – Ricky Williams

‘I’m like, ‘I think I’m just going to wear what makes me happy,’ so I’m just really big on wearing things that reflect my personality, like colorful hats and weird shoes and things that I just think are fun.’ – Lilly Singh

‘The Why’s of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘To me, rap music is bigger than who’s the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It’s everything about your personality.’ – Diplo

‘Aakhri Pasta is an extension of Sajid Khan’s personality.’ – Chunky Pandey

‘A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn’t anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn’t have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn’t hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn’t doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.’ – Santan Dave

‘We’ve always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.’ – Herb Kelleher

‘The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, educational and helpful.’ – Rosanna Pansino

‘You now have to decide what ‘image’ you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.’ – David Ogilvy

‘Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.’ – Edward Albee

‘Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.’ – Nadia Boulanger

‘When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.’ – Jimmy Breslin

‘An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment – his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.’ – Alec Guinness

‘My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.’ – Trevor Huddleston

‘At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.’ – Paul Tournier

‘Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.’ – Al Gore

‘I discourage a cult of personality.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.’ – William Albert Allard

‘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.’ – Germaine Greer

‘An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.’ – Charles Horton Cooley

‘America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.’ – David Brooks

‘You know, I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!’ – Brett Somers

‘The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.’ – Gene Simmons

‘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.’ – Chuck Barris

‘You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.’ – Adam Baldwin

‘When you see somebody who’s got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they’re constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into – constantly horrified by the things people do.’ – Daniel Clowes

‘When you’re not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.’ – Kathy Najimy

‘Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren’t really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names – the products of a good publicity department.’ – Ann Sothern

‘Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone’s personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘I don’t have the confidence to be a personality.’ – Zoe Wanamaker

‘My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.’ – Jay London

‘It makes it very exciting don’t you think to live in an age of, of discovery of human personality this way?’ – John Money

‘Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.’ – Hussein of Jordan

‘We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.’ – Lindsay Davenport

‘I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I’m doing so I’ll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject’s personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.’ – Norman Rockwell

‘I’m kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I’m actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that’s just part of my personality.’ – Debbie Gibson

‘I’m not really a political satirist. I don’t kid myself. I’m more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.’ – Rich Little

‘In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.’ – Edward Bach

‘I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.’ – Berkeley Breathed

‘The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the ‘genius’ of the personage, the greater the profit.’ – George Grosz

‘An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.’ – Arthur Lowe

‘The studio didn’t ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.’ – Jackie Cooper

‘The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson’s.’ – Jonathan Coe

‘I became quite taken over by Johnson’s personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.’ – Jonathan Coe

‘Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.’ – Kenneth L. Pike

‘The core of my personality consists of many selves.’ – Hans Bender

‘What matters most in politics is personality. It’s not issues; it’s not image. It’s who you are and what you represent.’ – Frank Luntz

‘There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.’ – Barry Mann

‘I think I’m more European in personality.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.’ – Trevor Dunn

‘My personality is that I’m a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.’ – Lee Greenwood

‘If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.’ – Marg Helgenberger

‘I’m trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else’s skin. Sometimes I feel I’ve accomplished it. But when I don’t, I’m nobody at all, having left myself at home.’ – Judy Holliday

‘I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really.’ – Paul Kane

‘The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.’ – William Jackson

‘I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer’s block.’ – R. L. Stine

‘Y’know what? This is what I go by: It doesn’t matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that’s what would win me over. So, yeah.’ – Rachel Bilson

‘Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.’ – Susan Estrich

‘I get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I’m an emotional kind of person anyway.’ – Josh Holloway

‘The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.’ – Carroll Quigley

‘I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don’t really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.’ – Morris Chestnut

‘You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.’ – Stanley Crouch

‘I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he’s a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.’ – James Laughlin

‘I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.’ – Mary Douglas

‘All artists are now free to express their own personality.’ – Maurice Denis

‘The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.’ – Rick Moody

‘My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.’ – Gordon Getty

‘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.’ – Andy Lau

‘I have an extremely addictive personality. I’m an extremist.’ – Leif Garrett

‘I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It’s always a real collaboration for me.’ – Jim Jarmusch

‘No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.’ – Sara Gilbert

‘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.’ – Vincent D’Onofrio

‘I have to choose songs that represent my personality.’ – Peabo Bryson

‘Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.’ – Rachael Leigh Cook

‘Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.’ – Elliott Carter

‘The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.’ – Herbert Read

‘You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.’ – Herbert Read

‘I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.’ – Dawn French

‘This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you’re harboring them yourself.’ – Jim Garrison

‘My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.’ – Edie Falco

‘There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality.’ – Bryan White

‘I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes – where a woman’s personality and sense of style are realized.’ – Vera Wang

‘I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.’ – Joe Murray

‘The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.’ – Joe Murray

‘I think I ‘turn off’ women. I’ve a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I’m a mess.’ – Ed O’Neill

‘You know like it has its own personality, its own character.’ – Marc Newson

‘That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.’ – Zhang Ziyi

‘The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I’m searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.’ – Galen Rowell

‘We’re starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we’re allowed to.’ – Lisa Guerrero

‘Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.’ – Mark Messier

‘I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.’ – Kim Weston

‘My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history.’ – Martin Kippenberger

‘I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There’s many sides to personality, but it’s a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?’ – Corin Nemec

‘I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I’m not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.’ – Corin Nemec

‘A quiet personality sure isn’t what you need to attract attention.’ – Bill Budge

‘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.’ – Bill Budge

‘When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.’ – Dennis Rodman

‘I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.’ – Robert Morgan

‘Many people think I’m a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.’ – Graham Kennedy

‘The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality – not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate – is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.’ – Oliver Joseph Lodge

‘Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.’ – Walter Pater

‘I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.’ – Brian Eno

‘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.’ – Jacques Derrida

‘You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.’ – Samuel Alexander

‘To maintain one’s individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.’ – Cyril Cusack

‘I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Jean’s whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.’ – Erika Slezak

‘Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.’ – Georg Simmel

‘Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.’ – Bela Lugosi

‘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.’ – Poul Anderson

‘And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I’ve had quite a bit of success but I feel that I’m just the same person as I always was.’ – Rube Goldberg

‘Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.’ – Fernand Leger

‘It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.’ – Alan Ladd

‘Some of the newer folks in the industry, I’m not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don’t understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.’ – Kathleen Quinlan

‘There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn’t seem to come with them.’ – Billy Bragg

‘Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.’ – LaToya London

‘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.’ – Carlisle Floyd

‘Roosevelt’s magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.’ – Emanuel Celler

‘I am a private person and that has always been my personality.’ – Grete Waitz

‘Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.’ – Michael Gambon

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

‘People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .’ – Kim Wilde

‘And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I’m forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.’ – Trish Stratus

‘They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.’ – Laura Prepon

‘In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.’ – Claudio Hummes

‘I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.’ – Gil Gerard

‘I am an addictive personality.’ – Trisha Goddard

‘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.’ – Morley Safer

‘One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare’s characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.’ – Kenneth Branagh

‘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.’ – Christy Romano

‘I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.’ – Monica Seles

‘Everybody that’s living in this earth is living in a situation. It’s not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.’ – Mike Epps

‘I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.’ – Mark Strand

‘When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.’ – Tia Carrere

‘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.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘The personality problem is so tough when you’re not able to pay people. It’s bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.’ – John Badham

‘I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.’ – John Badham

‘It’s a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn’t find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.’ – Stone Gossard

‘Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.’ – Earl Butz

‘But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.’ – Claudia Cardinale

‘The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.’ – Julian Clary

‘Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.’ – Will McDonough

‘Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.’ – Dennis Potter

‘As far as I’m concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.’ – Mose Allison

‘The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence – a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.’ – Christian Lous Lange

‘I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don’t. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.’ – David Lloyd

‘The more you build your life on principle and less on personality – yours or others – the straighter will be your course.’ – Edwin Louis Cole

‘At MTV, it’s very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.’ – Tabitha Soren

‘The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.’ – Raymond Queneau

‘For example I don’t work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They’re different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don’t impose that on the actors.’ – David Cronenberg

‘My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.’ – Jean-Jacques Annaud

‘Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.’ – Meryl Streep

‘I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.’ – Tyra Banks

‘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.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else’s personality.’ – Julie London

‘I want to be an actress, not a personality.’ – Jill Clayburgh

‘The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.’ – S. J. Perelman

‘Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality… ‘The Odd Couple’ was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.’ – Walter Matthau

‘Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn’t have the personality of a politician. We don’t see the world that simply.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.’ – Anthony Sampson

‘Personality is the most important thing to an actress’s success.’ – Mae West

‘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.’ – Barbara Cartland

‘As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.’ – Max Beerbohm

‘There isn’t as much passion and outrage in today’s newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they’ve lost their personality.’ – Michael Gartner

‘The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.’ – Anna Garlin Spencer

‘Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it’s inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.’ – Tara Strong

‘I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I’ve played, but I think I’m pretty similar to the character I’m playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.’ – Lizzy Caplan

‘I never thought I’d say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.’ – Bill Maher

‘Where does personality end and brain damage begin?’ – Douglas Coupland

‘You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same… but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it’s unpredictable. You can’t be off in outer space when you’re dealing with animals.’ – Chris Cooper

‘I think in the end, when you’re famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I’ve just become this ambitious, say-whatever’s-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that’s part of my personality, but it’s certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘You use words like ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert,’ various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.’ – Michael Fassbender

‘I’d like to think that I’m brave. That’s a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I’m the type of person to go rescue someone.’ – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

‘I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I’m very picky!’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.’ – Chris Cornell

‘Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that’s just me – if they say I’m quirky, I’m quirky. It’s better than being boring.’ – Zooey Deschanel

‘I’m an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.’ – Davey Havok

‘We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.’ – Eric Alterman

‘The industry’s much quicker. The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘I think it’s just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it’s really about personality and people’s hearts and souls. That’s what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.’ – Lily Collins

‘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.’ – Brooke Burns

‘My daughter is exceptionally chatty. I’m not a braggy mother but she is gifted – with the personality of a Russian gymnastics coach.’ – Caroline Rhea

‘The turnover with models – I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.’ – Carolyn Murphy

‘Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.’ – Lee Westwood

‘I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it’s not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life.’ – Michael Chang

”Ludacris’ is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I’m cool, calm, and collected, and other times I’m beyond crazy.’ – Ludacris

‘Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.’ – Mia Maestro

‘I have a hyper personality.’ – Zoe Saldana

‘Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.’ – Usain Bolt

‘My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.’ – Peter Orszag

‘My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it’s just getting bigger.’ – Angie Harmon

‘I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.’ – Paz Vega

‘It’s tough now to meet a girl who wants to hang out with you because she likes your personality – who hasn’t seen you on TV and is like, ‘Hey!” – Shaun White

‘Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I’m far more open now.’ – Shaun White

‘I’ve let a lot of my type A personality go. When you have a kid, the messiness doesn’t matter anymore.’ – Tiffani Thiessen

‘When you’re in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.’ – Michelle Williams

‘I know my mother so well, so it’s hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don’t really know her personality.’ – Caroline Kennedy

‘I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.’ – Charlie Kaufman

‘Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.’ – Orlando Jones

‘Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. ‘Forbidden’ is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It’s there to nourish your body.’ – Valerie Bertinelli

‘I tell you how I feel and how we’re going to solve it. That’s my unique personality and that’s how I carry myself. It is different from most people, but when something comes out of your mouth, people tend to listen more.’ – Jon Runyan

‘The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn’t dour and down on themselves.’ – Jo Durie

‘I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person’s voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.’ – Terry Gross

‘I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I don’t think there’s anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.’ – Chris Christie

‘I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.’ – Sandra Brown

‘Obama’s personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.’ – David Limbaugh

‘I have an appearance on a new TV show called ‘Bar Karma’ on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It’s a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.’ – Genie Francis

‘I think if there’s any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it’s that I’ve been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what’s expected.’ – Andrew Mason

‘What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.’ – Fareed Zakaria

‘The screenwriters I know share a few personality traits and one of them is anxiety.’ – Tony Gilroy

‘I’m very confident in how I project my personality.’ – Megan Fox

‘I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone’s personality. It’s a very lovely concept.’ – Drew Barrymore

‘I think that’s my personality, to have a good laugh and not to take myself too seriously. And of course I have my things on the court but when I’m off the court I just like to have fun.’ – Caroline Wozniacki

‘There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.’ – Rita Rudner

‘I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago – my job was secure. I didn’t have to promote myself. These days there’s far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won’t be lost.’ – David Attenborough

‘I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.’ – Lena Dunham

‘I didn’t like anything about myself – my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.’ – Marion Cotillard

‘I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.’ – George Clooney

‘I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the ’50s, that’s affected my personality to the point that I’m a little different.’ – Christopher Walken

‘My problem is I’m an addictive personality. I can’t have one coffee. I can’t eat one piece of chocolate.’ – Guy Pearce

‘All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘It’s just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.’ – K. D. Lang

‘I was kind of a volatile personality, very intense. Because of that, I drew some criticism and people would say things about me, and my parents had tried to defend me. I would just tell them don’t worry about it. Our day will come.’ – Kirk Gibson

‘The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.’ – John Cleese

‘It’s wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don’t care about style or money.’ – Adriana Lima

‘Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that ‘all people are really interested in’ are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.’ – Alastair Campbell

‘I have a very busy personality.’ – Daniel Radcliffe

‘I’m not a personality actress. I never have been. I have been a character actress.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that’s still part of my personality today.’ – Katy Perry

‘Being famous before you’ve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.’ – Chris Evert

‘Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.’ – James Wolcott

‘Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn’t on the page, then it really won’t make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.’ – Larry Hagman

‘I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.’ – Tom Petty

‘I don’t think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they’re fans because I’m a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.’ – Billy Corgan

‘When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.’ – Andy Serkis

‘I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That’s why I like TV more.’ – Jane Pauley

‘I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that’s what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I’ve just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.’ – Jane Pauley

‘It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.’ – Andre Rieu

‘You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction.’ – Mark Pincus

‘I’ve been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn’t set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.’ – Sean Parker

‘Starting at age 10, my personality and my identity all stemmed from employment. I had a set to be at. I was a certain way with the cameraman, a certain way with the makeup lady – a normal, routine environment.’ – Jason Bateman

‘If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.’ – Phil McGraw

‘Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.’ – Karen Armstrong

‘The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I’m a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.’ – Eleanor Mondale

‘As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him ‘bigger than life,’ as the Americans say.’ – Antonio Banderas

‘I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.’ – J. J. Abrams

‘I have a flirtatious personality.’ – Jessica Simpson

‘I don’t want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality.’ – Chanel Iman

‘I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.’ – Hilary Rhoda

‘I think skilled salesmen have the ability to work out who you are and pick out aspects of your personality. They almost manipulate you, in a way, to make you buy their product.’ – Dominic Cooper

‘I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on ‘The Hills’ is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don’t show too much.’ – Kristin Cavallari

‘To pursue a career in Hollywood you have to have a personality bypass. Look at the top 20 stars in the world – there’s probably only two actors among them. Hollywood’s not about you as an actor. It’s about your currency, what you ‘bring to the table’. And I’ve never been one to jump through hoops for anyone.’ – Robert Carlyle

‘One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions – there’s all this contradictory information inside a human personality.’ – Justin Cronin

‘Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can’t imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.’ – William Landay

‘Doing things like playing music, something that’s so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that’s sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.’ – Ezra Miller

‘I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.’ – Diablo Cody

‘Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don’t, how you’ll handle a situation – whether you’ve got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.’ – John Key

‘You know, I’m from the Midwest, man – that shapes my personality much more than having gone to Harvard.’ – Dean Norris

‘I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I’m not anymore. I’m more lenient on myself.’ – Giancarlo Esposito

‘We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.’ – Kamala Harris

‘In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer – because there was a time that was true. So that’s where I developed my personality.’ – Rashida Jones

‘Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life.’ – Jenna Fischer

‘I always say golf’s a really good exposer of a player’s personality.’ – Stuart Appleby

‘I have confidence in my personality, because I think that if I talk to people hopefully they will like me, but I don’t have confidence in my body.’ – Georgie Henley

‘Soulja Boy is on his dance, down south, young, 18-year-old, comedic swag. It’s really just each person’s personality; if every rapper had the same swag, it would be kind of boring.’ – Soulja Boy

‘Children go with whatever makes them feel good – like if that’s the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I’ve grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality – onstage those things became my colors.’ – Janelle Monae

‘I am far from perfect, but I have something else. I heard that people in the industry are longing for more personality and diversity. Perhaps I am more a ‘character’ than a model.’ – Saskia de Brauw

‘The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It’s a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.’ – David Mitchell

‘I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6’2 model bodies and sometimes they’re short and brunette. All shapes and sizes – it’s really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it’s so freaking true!’ – Dylan O’Brien

‘The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That’s what I think is cool.’ – Jessica Szohr

‘The main thing in making your own music is that it’s an expression of someone’s personality and being. That’s what people want to hear, and you can’t really teach that – that’s just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.’ – Michael Kiwanuka

‘One aspect of my mum’s personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.’ – Rebecca Hall

‘Back in high school, there was something fun and dangerous about inhabiting a different personality.’ – Tim Heidecker

‘Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.’ – Conrad Black

‘I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.’ – Ed Rendell

‘It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.’ – John Hodgman

‘I’m a personality – like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.’ – John Hodgman

‘Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.’ – Beth Ditto

‘For me, you don’t ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That’s what I’ve tried to go out and do.’ – Robert Griffin III

‘Like many Catholics, I was very affected by the personality of Jesus and that impression, pious as it was, has stayed with me.’ – Simon Callow

‘One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I’m rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.’ – Jack Abramoff

‘The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it’s a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let’s do that. I don’t mean to complicate things. It’s just – why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there’s no dill in the house?’ – Sloane Crosley

‘I always felt different as a kid, and the Kinks were like, ‘Yeah, we’re the Kinks.’ Celebrate your difference; don’t be afraid of your sense of humor, or your personality, or who you are. It emboldened me.’ – Michael Weatherly

‘The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.’ – Bart Stupak

‘Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it’s that mix of people, it’s that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.’ – Baz Luhrmann

‘I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.’ – Lara Stone

‘I’m a writer slash designer slash TV personality.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I’m rich. But then she’s gonna get to know me and say, ‘Screw the money.” – will.i.am

‘Yes, it seems we’ve got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It’s really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, ‘Oh, the other, get them out of here.” – Geraldine Brooks

‘When I first started, especially because I got the Critics’ Choice before I’d released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.’ – Florence Welch

‘I didn’t want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn’t have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I’m happy with things.’ – Florence Welch

‘I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality.’ – Stuart Rose

‘I like the personality of the Belgians. They’re deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design – terrific.’ – Miranda Richardson

‘I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. It’s how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy.’ – Ari Graynor

‘The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.’ – Sarah Paulson

‘Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.’ – Annie Baker

‘While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.’ – Robert Winston

‘I realized horses have personality when I bought one and I had one, who’s now out to pasture, a horse named Drifter. Before that, I was a city boy. Horses, I used to go out to the LaBagh Woods and ride at a stable once every two years or something; no idea about horses. Dogs, I knew, had personalities, but not horses.’ – Michael Mann

‘People have said, ‘Why don’t you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,’ but my head is full of writing and directing and I don’t feel like I want to run a company. That’s not really within my personality as well.’ – Bong Joon-ho

‘If you’re supposed to be a ‘personality,’ then you might as well have a personality.’ – Julian Fellowes

‘Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.’ – Peter Greenaway

‘I’ve got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don’t know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.’ – Leon Redbone

‘I think if I hadn’t become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.’ – Hilary Mantel

‘Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don’t like me, I will obsess over it – and try to change my personality until they like me – even if they don’t like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they’re strangers.’ – Damon Lindelof

‘I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say ‘feminist’ now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it’s somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.’ – Megyn Kelly

‘The element which is conveniently missing from today’s Republican Party is the human one. People’s hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.’ – Steven Weber

‘There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they’re interchangeable. You don’t have a feeling about them.’ – Daley Thompson

‘I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.’ – Alice Sebold

‘I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.’ – Alice Sebold

‘I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.’ – Alison McGhee

‘My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.’ – Beth Moore

‘I don’t really know what my personality is anyway. I don’t really have one.’ – Richard Ayoade

‘For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.’ – Jeff Greenfield

‘To be perfectly honest, it isn’t fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.’ – Steve Garvey

‘What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.’ – John Eldredge

‘If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.’ – John Eldredge

‘Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.’ – John Eldredge

‘When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels.’ – Jonathan Ames

‘I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.’ – Jonathan Ames

‘Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don’t work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it’s plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.’ – Lynne Truss

‘What one discovers in life, I find, is that one’s personality defects don’t come and go.’ – Lynne Truss

‘I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don’t want to leave the house.’ – Marian Keyes

‘These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: ‘What do you do?’ is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about ‘the character,’ and what you do. It’s a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.’ – John Barrowman

‘I am definitely a Type A personality, always rushing around, trying to do too much, not good at just lying on the beach. But I’m so thankful for everything I have: wonderfully supportive parents and sisters, the best husband in the world, terrific students I love teaching and hanging out with, and above all, my two amazing daughters.’ – Amy Chua

‘When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.’ – Grace Jones

‘I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last – God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I’m such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won’t let myself buy it.’ – Mary Karr

‘If you only have work clothes – the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap – you’re not participating in your own style personality.’ – Stacy London

‘We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.’ – Ellen G. White

‘You can always spot a ‘television personality’, even when they aren’t actually on television, because they carry their ‘made-up’ persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.’ – Will Self

‘When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.’ – Catherine Tate

‘I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don’t look any further. I’ve used that as I’ve got older. It’s controlling: I decide what part of my personality you’re seeing. I don’t want you to look at me, I really don’t. I don’t want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.’ – Catherine Tate

‘I’ve always been a big fan of Mariah Carey. I think it’s her personality. As much as she has an amazing voice, she has a crazy personality and I love the fact that she’s not afraid to hide that.’ – Jessica Mauboy

‘An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.’ – Dale Robertson

‘I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I’m really not type A. I’m kind of a spaz.’ – Alison Brie

‘It’s funny, because I don’t have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can’t do anything else.’ – Mae Whitman

‘I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I’m around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.’ – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

‘If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn’t mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath – but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn’t so easy to fix.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘What they do in America in all those sitcoms is hire glamorous girls and they’re never that funny… that’s because they’ve never had to develop a personality because they’re hot.’ – Rebel Wilson

‘My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.’ – Grant Achatz

‘I’m from Alabama and I have morals and I have class. That’s my personality.’ – Katherine Webb

‘I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that’s a thing that’s going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.’ – Martha Wainwright

‘I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?’ – Siddhartha Mukherjee

‘I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.’ – Ryan Trecartin

‘I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.’ – Susan Cain

‘All personality traits have their good side and their bad side. But for a long time, we’ve seen introversion only through its negative side and extroversion mostly through its positive side.’ – Susan Cain

‘Personality is so important – when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.’ – Olivier Theyskens

‘I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.’ – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

‘I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when it’s time to do a book tour, I love that extroverted part, too – talking to people, reading, traveling, going out into the world.’ – Ann Hood

‘I had been a veteran of pretty challenging job searches, so I knew firsthand how frustrating, confusing, and demoralizing the job search process can be. Even after you get a job, many people join companies and discover in the first couple weeks that they aren’t a good match with the personality and values of the company.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I stayed out of the sun when I was young, not because I knew better, but because I’m a Type A personality who gets too restless to lay around and do nothing.’ – Georgette Mosbacher

‘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.’ – Aziz Ansari

‘I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I’m sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there’s a huge part of my personality that’s really energetic, outgoing and goofy.’ – Skylar Grey

‘It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone’s personality.’ – Anthony Goldbloom

‘You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘Hollywood, young or otherwise, is a very trend-driven town, and that can get a little out of hand at times. I just try to stay true to my own personal taste – incorporating my personality while not taking myself too seriously.’ – Skylar Astin

‘I think it’s important to see where compliments are coming from – if they’re compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they’re about your physicality or your personality.’ – Aly Michalka

‘My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.’ – Poppy Delevingne

‘I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That’s why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.’ – Andrew Wylie

‘I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.’ – Marisa Berenson

‘I’ve got a pretty addictive personality.’ – Kevin Plank

‘My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.’ – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

‘In a way I’m almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.’ – Robert Harris

‘When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.’ – Steven Pinker

‘Eighty percent of the things I do are not natural for my personality. I believe you have to fake it till you make it. Act like you’re confident and you’ll get there.’ – Marisa Miller

‘You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.’ – Antonio Damasio

‘I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.’ – Marina and the Diamonds

‘I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they’re going to look like. So it’s kind of like that’s my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.’ – Faith Hill

‘The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.’ – Brian Molko

‘L.A. doesn’t have any big personality to me; it’s not inspiring.’ – Amy Lee

‘Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn’t matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.’ – Dan Aykroyd

‘I didn’t really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular.’ – Eva Longoria

‘I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.’ – Brene Brown

‘I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.’ – Viggo Mortensen

‘It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There’s no personality involved.’ – Olivia Wilde

‘I don’t really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I’m not stuck all the time hanging out.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.’ – Donatella Versace

‘The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don’t lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘I try and stay positive; being negative isn’t good for my personality. I don’t just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It’s like a dark cloud, ‘Uh oh, here we go,’ and have to snap out of it.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I’m in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I’m like, ‘Go ahead, and have fun!” – Amy Adams

‘I am a public person and I have my private life. It’s important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.’ – Georges St-Pierre

‘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.’ – Andrew Scott

‘It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called ‘openness to experience.’ People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘Be fun! I don’t like homes or rooms that don’t have a sense of humor or have some sense of whimsy or a personality. Your home should reflect who you are, and what you love. I would never have something in my home because it’s the thing to have. I have to love it and it needs some connection to me.’ – Bryan Batt

‘You can’t just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There’s no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.’ – Cameron Monaghan

‘I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn’t dissuade me.’ – Carmen Ejogo

‘Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don’t have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I’m of a personality that I’m a little stubborn, so it’s tough for me.’ – Mel Gibson

‘If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.’ – Heather Brooke

‘You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you’re dealing with gives you a great leg up.’ – Helen Fisher

‘From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types – each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.’ – Helen Fisher

‘I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.’ – Felicia Day

‘The chance to play a character with a split personality is an actor’s dream.’ – Ashley Bell

‘My character in ‘Cocktail’ was different from my personality. Homi Adajania took me to London, showed me how girls dress and behave there. I had not seen that kind of lifestyle before.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘I think models in general have a certain insecurity about themselves because they’re known for being beautiful, so they have to prove to everybody they have personality and they are intelligent.’ – Derek Hough

‘The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that’s the case, that’s the basis of your uniqueness as a person.’ – Sebastian Seung

‘The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.’ – Ezekiel Emanuel

‘I’m interested in just about anything that’s right for my voice, and that’s a good fit for my personality in the part as well. ‘Evita’ has always been a dream part for me, but it’s really, really high to sing. I’d love to do Elphaba – heck, I’d even do Glinda. For me, I’d do anything to get into ‘Wicked!” – Lea Salonga

‘Rob Petrie is who I really am – in personality and general ineffectiveness.’ – Dick Van Dyke

‘At this point in my life, I’m not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I’m not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I’m going to be somebody who wants to get things done.’ – Christine Quinn

‘I think it’s my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.’ – Hope Solo

‘Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What’s more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it’s important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.’ – Simon Sinek

‘Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like – or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.’ – Simon Sinek

‘The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can’t take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they’re a complete psycho – ‘Great, I’ve just wasted all this time on you!” – Katy B

‘I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality… The one thing I’ve chosen to be great at in my life is singing – so why not be proud that I’m great at it?’ – Jessie J

‘I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours’ sleep a night. I honestly don’t think I’d be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don’t think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.’ – Jessie J

‘The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.’ – Jessie J

‘I’m very direct. It’s part of my personality. I’ve actually grown into that.’ – Miranda Kerr

‘Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body… show your personality as much as possible.’ – Billy Idol

‘Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn’t have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it’s not the same.’ – Lou Ferrigno

‘I’m not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don’t have that personality.’ – Maria Bamford

‘Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.’ – Mekhi Phifer

‘I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.’ – Marcus Brigstocke

‘You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it’s a good idea. But I can’t do it.’ – Rupert Graves

‘A person’s current personality of love, hatred, jealousy, rage or a murderous intent and so on is formed upon genetic elements, education, the environment and a family a person grows in.’ – Kim Ki-duk

‘I have always said I’ve had a big personality, and I’ve always said I’m a pushy broad, and I’ve always said I want to get things done.’ – Christine Quinn

‘I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.’ – Alber Elbaz

‘I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what’s happened. It does help a lot, especially when you’ve done badly or you’ve failed. It’s instinctive of me that I look at what’s next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.’ – Rahul Dravid

‘I’ve owned a lot of dogs in my life – Marcela, Rusty, Petey Pup, Precious, Rosy and Ava. Each were in love with life’s simple pleasures, but being people in dog suits, as they seem to be, they each had a defined personality!’ – Bob Peterson

‘I look pretty nondescript. I don’t go out of my way to… I don’t express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear – I don’t really care about that.’ – Patton Oswalt

‘I don’t have a problem with recognition… It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’… It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality.” – C. C. H. Pounder

‘I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM’s 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.’ – Padmasree Warrior

‘I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.’ – Brian Dennehy

‘I’ve never been a sunny personality. I’ve never been outgoing. I’m a solitary person.’ – Jessica Lange

‘It’s not that I lead this oblivious life where I think I’ve got such a great personality that people want to spend time with me. If someone has a poster of you or asks for your autograph, clearly you can’t take them out on a date. It’s not that interesting if someone is just interested in you.’ – George Clooney

‘I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.’ – Joel Osteen

‘To get scared is something not in my personality.’ – Ram Kapoor

‘Certain people are just saying, ‘Look, I’m a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits – the soft skills.” – William Julius Wilson

‘I’ve read a lot of different versions of myself – and all of them are true because it’s all opinion, and they’re as accurate as it can ever be. But I don’t think that I’ve been deft at hiding parts of my personality.’ – Emma Stone

‘Much of what we now consider ‘personality’ will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks – slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.’ – Jo Brand

‘Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.’ – Vladimir Putin

‘To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don’t think I’m that selfless and giving.’ – Chris Parnell

‘Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.’ – Riteish Deshmukh

‘I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn’t just interest me, it fascinates me.’ – Angeles Mastretta

‘I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I’ve never really seen the point.’ – Colm Toibin

‘I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.’ – Christopher Walken

‘It’s a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I’m only doing the kernel – I always found everything around it to be completely boring.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘I don’t have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don’t know that if I hadn’t been an actor as a young person, I don’t know that I ever would have chosen this because it’s not really my personality.’ – Jodie Foster

‘What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991.’ – Chris Cornell

‘I love politics, but I wouldn’t want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don’t really have the personality for that.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.’ – Geddy Lee

‘I don’t avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don’t come out.’ – Jackson Browne

‘As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.’ – Alain de Botton

‘I converted to Christianity because I was convinced by Jesus Christ as a character, as a personality. I loved him, his wisdom, his love, his unconditional love.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef

‘A staple of my personality is that I want what I want – and I’m willing to do without until I get it.’ – Mara Brock Akil

‘A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it’s hard to mask your basic personality. It’s a bit like a relationship. If you’re always there, they can’t desire you.’ – Jacqueline Bisset

‘I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I’m over the top in real life, too.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.’ – Victoria Beckham

‘The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was ‘high-strung’ – intensely neurotic – yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.’ – Joyce Carol Oates

‘I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It’s not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?’ – Oriana Fallaci

‘When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after’ with an actual man!’ – Lynda Barry

‘Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it’s backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you’re a perfectionist, there’s going to be head-butting.’ – Roseanne Barr

‘I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.’ – Val Kilmer

‘On a purely personal level, it’s very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I’ve been given the job of forming Superman’s personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘I’m really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I’ve been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.’ – Olly Murs

‘My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.’ – Magic Johnson

‘I got blessed from my mom. She’s the personality; she’s the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.’ – Magic Johnson

‘People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I’ve developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.’ – Robert Crumb

‘Every audience has a personality. Some of them don’t have the best personalities, but you’re on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it.’ – Rita Rudner

‘My character and personality is today and tomorrow; I do not work well remembering further back.’ – Lech Walesa

‘I’ll never be the biggest kind of star; I’ll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can’t identify the face. I don’t have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.’ – John Malkovich

‘Although designers continue to dream of ‘transparency’ – technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt – both creators and audiences actually like technologies with ‘personality.” – Brian Eno

‘I know he’s retired, but I’m a big fan of Shaquille O’Neal, his game and his personality. I have a pair of his shoes in my office. You see the size of his shoe and think, ‘This is not real, this couldn’t belong to a human being.’ But he is human!’ – Wladimir Klitschko

‘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.’ – Ben Stein

‘People that want to be in the tabloids will get into the tabloids. I just stay home and don’t go out much. My personality is not an introvert, but that’s how I am as far as going out to parties. I just stay in my house and hang out with friends.’ – Keke Palmer

‘Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She’s not trying to be a model. She’s trying to be more like a personality. We’re trying to kind of separate ourselves – not in a bad way!’ – Kendall Jenner

‘I’ve always cared about issues, always thought through problems. I don’t know how much that comes from my personality or my mum.’ – Lily Cole

‘I watched Ali, studied Ali, and I studied Sugar Ray Robinson. I watched them display showmanship. I watched them use pizzazz, personality, and charisma. I took things from them and borrowed things from them because boxing is entertainment.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished.’ – Matt Berninger

‘I think most of my career has been built on conviction and the personality to carry that image or stride confidently on the catwalk. That was my beginning and, hopefully, my legacy.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don’t listen to those rules about face shape.’ – Philip Treacy

‘I’m not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.’ – Norman Schwarzkopf

‘There’s so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I’m not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.’ – Jessica White

‘It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.’ – Liya Kebede

‘The fashion thing is something I do, and yes, it is definitely also becoming a part of myself and my personality. It also doesn’t really feel like a job, either: it’s a dream or a passion or something.’ – Raf Simons

‘The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad’s personality. They fused, and that’s what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.’ – Nina Conti

‘Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I’ve had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.’ – Bat for Lashes

‘What’s important is that people realize that I can’t be put into a box musically. I’ve studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I’ve studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don’t have one personality every day. You don’t have one mood.’ – Trey Songz

‘I’ve always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I’ve never tried to attach myself to that.’ – Cass McCombs

‘Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.’ – Paul Simonon

‘I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn’t much they could do with some of those people.’ – Tom Rath

‘I think Madonna might have a multiple personality.’ – Maripol

‘Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, ‘Okay, I can deal with this person’s personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I’m not gonna change myself to be their friend.” – J. B. Smoove

‘I’m, like, everybody’s friend. I’m one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘I’m not really a management-type person. It doesn’t suit my personality to be bossing people around.’ – Chris Lilley

‘I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.’ – Lapo Elkann

‘As a model, I didn’t have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn’t full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn’t a cover-girl type.’ – Carmen Dell’Orefice

‘I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn’t compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it’s my personality that these designers were drawn to.’ – Lou Doillon

‘The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We’ve got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn’t much, but he stood for something.’ – George Foreman

‘It’s my personality to be more quiet and reserved. I’m not going out every night to multiple things. I prefer to stay in and be with my children and do Spanish homework to make sure they get a good grade the next day.’ – Aerin Lauder

‘A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist’s taste in music, or we’re told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.’ – Peter Temple

‘I’m not an outstanding personality, and I’m certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I’ve got to trade on.’ – Betty Field

‘I think it’s important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I’m a little bit scattered, but it’s so I can convincingly play all these characters.’ – Ansel Elgort

‘I am not an angry guy. It’s just the roles I do that impact my personality.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that’s beyond the limits of my own personality.’ – Jenny Offill

‘The great photographers of life – like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank – all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.’ – Caleb Deschanel

‘There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn’t want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It’s hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.’ – Scott Stossel

‘To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.’ – Scott Stossel

‘Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don’t belong to my fans. I don’t put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.’ – Koko Taylor

‘Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though.’ – Hayley Hasselhoff

‘With a rescue dog, you take what’s at the centre as long as it roughly fits the bill. When you buy a dog from a breeder, you can choose everything from its personality to how shiny its coat is.’ – Mark Barrowcliffe

‘All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed.’ – James E. Faust

‘I feel like until you’re with the person, the person you end up marrying, you don’t ever really know what you’re looking for. I’m just into a girl with a really good personality, something that goes beyond looks. I want to be able to joke around, be respectful of each other… there are a lot of things that go into compatibility.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘It’s difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I’ve never said something mean just like that. I’ve only said things in retaliation.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘I’m the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span theater. I do wild things.’ – Steve-O

‘I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.’ – Tony Jaa

‘We all know that a beautiful face is an important aspect of an actor’s personality if he or she wants to make it big in Bollywood.’ – Anushka Sharma

‘I’ve started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I’m eating right and keeping in shape. I’m a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That’s what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.’ – Madhuri Dixit

‘I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don’t go bungee jumping; I won’t jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don’t do such things. That’s not my personality type.’ – Kajol

‘I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.’ – Phoebe Philo

‘My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.’ – John W. Rogers, Jr.

‘You see a whole bunch of different looks in the NBA. Guys, like LeBron, have stylists now, and they do their own thing. Then you have Russell Westbrook, whose style is a little different. Every guy is wearing outfits to show their personality.’ – Chandler Parsons

‘I’d started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I’ve only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.’ – Gaby Hoffmann

‘I have to really enjoy someone’s personality, not just their looks, before I’ll kiss them.’ – Megan Fox

‘I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they’re very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they’re very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.’ – Vik Muniz

‘Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day – race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.’ – Jane Leavy

‘I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn’t get the part.’ – Oscar Isaac

‘We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality – Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever – Philadelphia had a tradition that was very distinct and unique.’ – John Oates

‘Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn’t seated in the confines of your home.’ – Imtiaz Ali

‘The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn’t a good one.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don’t react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I’d go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it’s part of my personality. To each his own.’ – Preity Zinta

‘I don’t think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don’t really know how to describe it… maybe I’ll go with surly.’ – Helen Oyeyemi

‘I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.’ – Sebastian Horsley

‘Frankly, I’ll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.’ – Seth Shostak

‘A team will take on its manager’s personality. If it’s a laid back manager, you’ll have a laid back personality. The players will see that if it’s OK for the Manager to be laid back, then you’ll have a laid back team.’ – Pete Rose

‘I look for strong people. I don’t like people who’ll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that’s reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to ‘The Standard.” – Anna Wintour

‘The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.’ – Gary Zukav

‘Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power – and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.’ – Gary Zukav

‘For me, personality acting is not that interesting. I don’t want to just be myself.’ – Lesley Manville

‘My favorite Wes Anderson movie is ‘The Darjeeling Limited,’ because I have two other brothers, and I just feel that connection so well. All of his films have something so great and unique about them, that I don’t know how I would be if I don’t like them. I wouldn’t be me. My personality is his sensibility.’ – Tony Revolori

‘I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.’ – Nicole Holofcener

‘All these corporations don’t want their drivers to ruin their image, so you can’t say what you think. You’re basically not allowed to have a personality. How can you have any heroes if you don’t allow personalities?’ – Jacques Villeneuve

‘For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one’s character, personality, upbringing and so on.’ – Gong Li

‘I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don’t believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don’t like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.’ – Gong Li

‘I’ve tried to recognize my wife’s individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.’ – Brad Goreski

‘When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it’s truly awesome and very powerful.’ – Claron McFadden

‘My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can’t imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.’ – John Searles

‘I’ve always been a fighter – it’s always been a part of my personality.’ – Israel Horovitz

‘Obama’s ability to use his personality to push folks, whether on Capitol Hill or in Europe, means that he has to stay popular. What happens if he loses that popular mandate?’ – Chuck Todd

‘I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.’ – Tim Hudson

‘The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role – I was playing dress-up a bit.’ – Natalie Maines

‘Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.’ – Hannah Storm

‘I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I’m not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys.’ – Nadia Ali

‘I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.’ – Michael Mina

‘When restaurants start to mature – and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality – your job is to grow it.’ – Michael Mina

‘Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I’m always trying to show my personality outside of the court.’ – Tomas Berdych

‘I hope I’m thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way – someone who is a human being as well as an actress.’ – Lauren Bacall

‘I don’t like messing up. I think that’s just a part of my personality. I don’t like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I’m in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.’ – Jacob Dalton

‘In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it’s something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.’ – Tino Sehgal

‘I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I’ve known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.’ – Brooke Shields

‘The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you’re in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody’s personality.’ – Lizzy Caplan

‘My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don’t know if that’s ever gonna change.’ – Dennis Crowley

”Survivor’ is a game that’s designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The greatest part is that you can go into the game as anyone you want, hold any job you desire, and portray any personality you can think of.’ – Jenna Morasca

‘When I got a call to do the voice of Johnny in an episode of ‘American Dad’ titled ‘I Can’t Stan You,’ it was a great opportunity to be a part of a really funny cutting-edge show on television. I really got into the character, and I was able to do some improvisation, which allowed me to mix in part of my personality into the script.’ – Paul Butcher

‘That’s when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.’ – Dana Schutz

‘In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.’ – Chris Van Allsburg

‘Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn’t layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.’ – Kristen Schaal

‘We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.’ – Julianne Moore

‘Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.’ – Michael Leunig

‘Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality – which indeed may be a rare achievement.’ – Michael Leunig

‘I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don’t have to change it when they show up to work that day.’ – Andrew Luck

‘I think leadership is most effective when it’s your own personality. But I feel like it’s a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.’ – Andrew Luck

‘I think there’s a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don’t have to change your personality to be a leader.’ – Andrew Luck

‘The problem with middle age, at least when it comes to modeling, is you seldom see a model who is past 27, 28. If they use anyone older, then it becomes automatically a ‘personality’ story.’ – Isabella Rossellini

‘The great quality of the ‘Three Kingdoms’ is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.’ – Ma Jian

‘My personality just steps away, and I’m in direct connection when I’m on stage.’ – Diane Ladd

‘I’m really not techno-savvy – that’s just not my personality.’ – Andie MacDowell

‘Defensive players kind of have that two-faced kind of way of being able to be very aggressive on the football field and going out there and getting there job done. At the same time, from my own incidents and my own personality, I’m much a person that’s very likable and lovable.’ – Ndamukong Suh

‘A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn’t be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.’ – Geoffrey Zakarian

‘I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus – having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don’t see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it’s more exploring a different side of your personality.’ – Kim Gordon

‘I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That’s a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.’ – Whitfield Diffie

‘I’ve seen kids turn their lives around. It’s usually a kid who’s outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn’t fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something – whether it’s skateboard or playing your guitar – can be life changing.’ – Jeff Ament

‘Personality is everything that’s false in a human: everything that’s been added on to him and contrived.’ – Sam Shepard

‘We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.’ – Domenico Dolce

‘Our fashion for us, it’s an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It’s not just a profession: it’s a person with a lot of personality.’ – Stefano Gabbana

‘We’re told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don’t experience Jesus personally like that. They just don’t. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don’t experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.’ – John Eldredge

‘I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.’ – Lykke Li

‘I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer’s eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.’ – Corey Reynolds

‘My entire personality changes when I’m in L.A.’ – Casey Johnson

‘I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that’s what art is.’ – David Sanborn

”The Outsiders’ cast in particular was a joy to be around – sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.’ – S. E. Hinton

‘You don’t put your head above the parapet and become a personality if you’re an illustrator – it’s not part of it; it’s not possible. You are a servant to the story.’ – Robert Ingpen

‘I always felt the gifts you need as governor were more suited for my personality. I’m a good team player, but I’m not a policy wonk. In Congress, you need 218 votes to make anything happen. When you’re governor, you’re the CEO of the state. You establish the vision and standards for the state. You’re the leader.’ – Steve Largent

‘The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there’s never been a formula. Each time, it’s a new thing.’ – Trevor Rabin

‘As a personality, I’m fighter, you know. And I don’t give up, and if I believe I’m correct, I’m right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.’ – Anatoly Karpov

‘I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you’ve got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they’ll shock you by their behavior.’ – Joel Edgerton

‘Gollum has a weak personality and isn’t able to cope with the power of the ring.’ – Andy Serkis

‘You know, in a way, I wish I could hate a little more. It would make me a more rounded personality.’ – Rod McKuen

‘I would not describe my personality. And I think when you describe people, you are making a mistake. That’s not how they are; that’s how you perceive them at that moment. It’s limiting in front of something that is magnificent and unlimited: life.’ – Philippe Petit

‘To the extent that independent means you’re willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I’m independent until the day I die.’ – James Gray

‘The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.’ – Don Ameche

‘I’m drawn to New England because that’s where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I’ve been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that’s revealed.’ – Elizabeth Strout

‘American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams’s diplomatic successes – bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved – still surprise a student of his personality.’ – Thomas Mallon

‘I’ve come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I’ll crash.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘You see a comic, and you’re like, ‘Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he’s been drawn that way.’ There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who’s writing them.’ – Cory Michael Smith

‘I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.’ – Ariel Pink

‘I’m in love with Ariana Grande – she’s got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Freddy Krueger, and I love Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel like we’d be perfect for each other.’ – Ariel Pink

‘I don’t really have a career plan. There’s no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that’s so much of what’s out there.’ – Tammy Blanchard

‘I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.’ – King Tuff

‘I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I’m actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I’d like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person’s personality away, because they’re trying to do things so technically.’ – King Tuff

‘I love fashion. For me, it’s always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There’s lots of influences.’ – Tinashe

‘I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games… and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.’ – Chet Faker