- Brain Damage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personality Quotes
What makes someone unmistakably themselves.
These personality quotes range from a public figure reflecting on why he's comfortable speaking before Congress, to actors who accept that certain traits will always come through on screen whether they intend it or not. A couple of entries push back on the very idea of having a public personality at all. See Character for a closely related theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very interested in how the brain works and the different personality types. I get my friends to do personality tests, and I see what type they resemble.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, rap music is bigger than who's the coolest rapper, the biggest rapper. It's everything about your personality.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if there was an opportunity to school yourself in different characters - characters that have distinct personalities which may be totally different from yours, you have got to completely divorce your own personality to be able to go over to the other personality.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020