Quotes About Personality

She found she had become two different people. Each one spoke differently, dressed differently, and ate different things, laughed at different jokes, had different interests. If one had met the other, they probably wouldn't have liked each other.

Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity

You can be nobody but yourself. You cannot hide away, nor be lost in any crowd. You carry the glory and the burden of your individuality.

The voice belonged to a plump round-faced woman of the sort that develops a good personality because the alternative is suicide.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Jens was small with a long fair mustache. Winter was enormous, roughly the size of a large door. I called them Asterix and Obelix. We got on frightfully well.

Fleming is charming65 to be with, but would sell his own grandmother. I like him a lot.

One of the hazards of having a good idea is that intelligent people tend to realize it is a good idea and seek to play a part. Like most novelists, Montagu did not like the editing process. He did not like the way Operation Mincemeat was being watered down. He did not like senior officers pulling rank and tinkering with a project in which he had invested so much of his time, energy, and personality.

One colleague described him thus: "With fierce black eyes and a hawk-like nose, thick well-oiled hair slicked back from a low forehead, he looked like a casting director's ideal choice for a desert sheikh or a slinky tango lizard.

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

And, it helped that Anna was as warm and outgoing as I was shy and inward looking.

I could never decide whether Tim's dry sense of humor was a defense mechanism or whether he was as truly immune as he seemed to the stress and criticism that came with his high-profile jobs.

Paulson projected a restless energy that took me some time to get used to.

In contrast to Lina, Masia was warm and outgoing—everything a boy could want in a grandmother.

You have to look like you're a nice person in order for people to believe that you are a nice person. Scientific studies show that people will judge you literally within milliseconds of seeing you. Make them see what you want them to see.

Now, that's not because Barack Obama is a warm and fuzzy guy. Even those who surround Barack Obama all day describe him as a cold fish. Obama is not someone who will bring over a bowl of chicken soup when you have the flu; he's not even the guy who will drive you to the airport when it inconveniences him. Yet, somehow, he was considered the more empathetic of the two candidates. Why? Because Romney was perceived as so darn mean.

Survivors aren't superheroes who vanquish adversity every time and live happily ever after. If you think they're always triumphant, you're wrong. They're regular people who win some and lose some. They share a mind-set but they don't all possess the same personality. They overcome adversity but they don't necessarily accomplish it the same way. They aren't always adaptable and optimistic; they feel stuck and gloomy, too.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh.