Quotes About Personality

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?'

Everyone who has ever met me for at least five minutes knows I'm a really funny person. I love to laugh and to make people laugh, so writing comedy comes naturally to me.

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

There are a lot of actors out there who are able to engage with something in themselves which isn't necessarily their brain. But personally I find it very intellectually satisfying: doing your research and then burrowing as deeply into character as you can. I'm a naturally inquisitive person, too, and acting does feed into that.

He imagines himself a wit, but he's only half that.

The men gasped at Nicholas. That's the most I've heard him say in three years. Sam said. He turned to the others. You ever hear him talk that much? I wasn't sure he could talk, Tucker Addison replied straight-faced. He talks, Dahlia said defensively. Begging your pardon, ma'am, but he's just plain anti-social, Sam pointed out, Always had been, always will be.

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

I'm totally susceptible to good looks. On the other hand, I don't like bossy men, so if you want worshipping from me, you'll have to keep your mouth closed and let me boss you.

Incoming. Are you sure? You sound so calm. Maybe you're wrong. I'm not wrong. Can you do this, Rose? He had to know if she was going to panic. I can kill whoever they send, no problem. Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not braindamaged. My condition doesn't change my personality. Kane rubbed his chin. Being pregnant might not have changed her personality, but it certainly made her a bit testy

I don't know why you think you don't look like a nice guy. You look tough, like you can handle yourself, but you don't look mean.

Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.

Oh, I'm losing my marbles,' said Bryant cheerfully. 'I've gone totally East Ham. One stop short of Barking.

He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

The lawbreaking itch is not always an anarchic one. In the first place, the human personality has (or ought to have) a natural resistance to coercion. We don't like to be pushed and shoved, even if it's in a direction we might choose to go. In the second place, the human personality has (or ought to have) a natural sense of the preposterous.

Deprivation of the ability to speak is more like an attack of impotence, or the amputation of part of the personality. To a great degree, in public and in private, I 'was' my voice.

Every society reproduces its culture, its norms, its underlying assumptions, its modes of organizing experience— in the individual, in the form of personality.

It's about average for us. Behavior always draws more than survey. We're the sexy ones,' Nate said with a grin. Amy snorted. 'Oh, yeah, you guys are the Mae Wests of the nerd world.' We're action nerds,' Nate said. 'Adventure nerds. Nerds of romance.

It was sometimes difficult to reconcile a man's talents with his personality.

Multiple Personality Barbie. She's elegant, she's fashionable, and she's the reason that Ken has no genitals! Have fun, but remember to hide the sharp stuff!

Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.

As lovely as she was, sarcasm did not wear well on her. Still, she was a bright girl, and in our short time together we had built a bond of petty resentments that usually takes a lifetime to develop.

I suggest starting with a cat; they have unusual personalities.