Quotes About Personality

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

The functions of the president are prescribed by the Constitution, but his real achievements are not set by the letter of the law. They are determined rather by his personality, the weight of his influence, his capacity for managing men, and the strength and effectiveness of the party forces behind him.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

People expect me to be funnier.

People who are from Chicago are just funnier than people who aren't from Chicago.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself.

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

She buckled about her her armour of charm

You can't help being a doll, she said with a resigned sigh, any more than Lavinia and Jessie can help not having any sense. We are not all made alike. Perhaps you do your sawdust best. And she kissed her and shook her clothes straight, and put her back upon her chair.

Imagine a world full of Elizabeth Wakefields,' Lila said. 'Could you imagine a duller, more predictable place? I think I'd go crazy.

You just don't want to face up to what kind of person Jessica is.

Enid was a terrific person, Elizabeth thought, and absolutely not a nerd, no matter what Jessica said. With her shoulder-length brown hair and large green eyes, she was really pretty.

from the earliest passages to the diary's final entry, in which she talks about her "dual personality," the lighthearted, superficial side that lies in wait to ambush and push away her "better, deeper, and purer" self.

I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.