Quotes About Personality

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it. The idea of the straight man is very important. But I'd rather it be somebody else, because it's not as fun.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

Working with Salman, I have observed that he is a very straightforward person.

I had the pleasure of getting to know David Beckham, an icon of football and beyond that. He's a great person, but I had no idea he was such a shy guy. Sometimes when you speak to him he blushes. It's very strange, he's famous around the world but in private he is very shy.

I'm a nice guy, but not all the time. There are these personalities in me, so many of them. They come out at strange times. I can be one way, then five minutes later I'm another way.

With Boris Johnson, you don't think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he's a comic character. He's basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

If you're a stranger, and you've never met me before, I'll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you're my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I am a shy man. I can't call a stranger and talk.

I am a very introvert person who cannot initiate a chat with a stranger.

Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

Sri is an introvert. She doesn't talk to strangers.

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.

He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an intense, statesmanlike seriousness about the business of being alive.

With Collins gone the major political personality left in the Free State was on the other side, de Valera.

The loss of memory is the loss of identity, Rebekah. If you can't remember who you are, you are at risk of becoming someone else.

She was one hundred percent homo sapiens and two hundred percent bugfuck crazy.

Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow.

the mogul makes the medium: the imprint of the personality inevitably informs it, often no less than the technology underlying it. Turner