- 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
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to have personality in my way of dressing. I think being normal is a bit boring.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Liar
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
For personality, you're not going to get better than Ricky Groves. He really goes for it.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020