Quotes About Personality

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

If you have a cool personality, the photographer will want to work with you because he or she will have more fun on set.

A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.

Every character is so different, if you put the photos next to each other, you see how different I looked and how different I tried to be. And that's what I really enjoyed, that I could really be a different character every time.

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

No I.D. helped me to just identify certain energies that I might not have really represented yet in the music that he picked up on just in my personality, or in the person he perceived me to be.

There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.

I grew up going to bluegrass festivals, and there were performers who got on stage and didn't say much. They would stand there, stone-faced, picking. I could appreciate that, but it taught me that a little showmanship and some personality adds so much to a performance.

I'm not good with pickup lines or flirting. I don't have that kind of self-confidence or natural charisma.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

In some ways, you kind of take a personality and drop it on the ground, and it breaks into a bunch of little pieces, and you kind of water those pieces, and it grows into characters. So they're all me in a way.

To me, Jefferson Pierce represented every side of me. I knew that I would be able to flesh him out.

I get pigeonholed into type-A personality characters, but I'm really not type A. I'm kind of a spaz.