Quotes About Personality

When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards the travel and experience around surfing and trying to relay that feeling. Going forward, I'm interested in story-driven and personality-driven themes.

Sam Peckinpah's movies probably say more about him than anybody's body of work says about that person. There are running themes in his films that I find eminently fascinating, disturbing, exhausting, and exhilarating.

You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that they like to imagine themselves as Scott Pilgrim, so it's interesting that there are two kind of schools of thought about the character. One is, like, Scott Pilgrim is awesome. The second is Scott Pilgrim believes himself to be awesome.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

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.

Acting, for me, was kind of a way of survival, honestly. I'm the baby boy out of four different sisters, and I grew up in a house with so many different personalities that acting was the only way to not go to therapy.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

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.

There are people that get jealous and they say Nicky is a snob or Paris is a snot. I know I've heard it, but I think they're pretty sweet kids.

When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.

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.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.