- DNA
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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
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an element of ego to writing the Riddler. You research a lot of things that you end up jettisoning as a writer, and Riddler was a lot of fun to get to have that sort of annoying know-it-all personality lording over the city. He's a lot of fun to write about.
- Brain Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to do some serious drama. I really connect with emotional characters who have struggles and a lot of emotion and colors. I don't really want to do anything smiley and cheesy; it's not really my personality when I'm working.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Did Robert De Niro actually look like Al Capone in 'The Untouchables?' Or did Van Kilmer look like Jim Morrison in 'The Doors?' No. It's the core, the essence of the personality that matters.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I signed with WWE, a lot of people, even close friends, told me that this place was going to chew me up and spit me out, just because of the way my personality is. It's been an adjustment for me as a human being.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020