Quotes About Personality

I'm not interested in someone's credits. Let me see who you are, and tell me a story of your life.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.

I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.

Most hiring managers interview a lot of people. So many that they generally have to go back to their notes to remember candidates - the exception being candidates with a strong hook. Sometimes these hooks are how people dress or their personality, but the best hook is a strong story that's work-related.

I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.

I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

If I'd had a charisma-ectomy in the beginning, XP would have gone nowhere.

All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just clearly sociopathic, because they're not. It's interesting to explore the shadings and nuances within a person. Those feelings exist within more human beings than people may want to acknowledge.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

Mum is withdrawn and very shy. I don't see her as a friend, like I do my dad. He's active and bouncy. She's maternal, nurturing, exceptionally intelligent and empathetic. I'm a better person for having had her as a mother.

I've inherited my mom's nurturing side, but I've also gotten her 'chronically five minutes late for everything' side, too!

Boruc is nuts. He is a very good friend of mine, and so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me saying he's a nutter. He really is crazy.

I remember Jerry Lewis said once that when small, he was the nutty kid in his neighborhood and I was the same way.

Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I was kind of an obnoxious kid. I would imitate Celine Dion. I would jump around and belt to the rafters and do the accent and everything.

To be around me, you must love food, or I'm the most obnoxious person you've ever met.