Quotes About Personality

From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

What stands out about me the most? Probably my chains. I don't know.

I think if you score lots of goals but nobody likes you as a person then it stands for nothing.

Really, each part, each one of us, I think, has our role, but I think for Joe, he really stands out and has that Mick Jagger-esque feel to him.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.