Quotes About Personality

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting. Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

It is a disquieting fact that we tend to find villains more interesting than their victims – in fiction and in reality – but the Nuremberg Trials revealed that in real life criminals and murderers are invariably colourless individuals, who lack personality as well as compassion and conscience. It is their victims who frequently display courage and endurance beyond normal human experience. And

Gin was always so calm around guys. Sandy wished some of that would rub off on her. Obviously, she didn't want all of Gin's habits to rub off, but a few of the useful ones might be nice.

English people are not mass-produced. They do not come off a factory line all looking, speaking, thinking, acting the same. Neither do we.

the unexpected side of a man's personality is more memorable than the proof he may appear to give from time to time that he is unchanged, unchangeable.

If, as is more likely, your loved one has the unconventional form of BPD, they may insist that everyone else is the problem. They will have no interest in therapy, and they will be verbally and emotionally abusive. There is a 99 percent chance that they will DARVO: deny, attack, reverse, claim victimhood, and make you into the offender.

In fact, if you are generous, or have a caretaking personality, they may treat you the worst.

folks with NPD have shallow emotional lives because so much must remain hidden, both from themselves and from others. This shallowness makes them hard to get to know, because there doesn't seem to be much of a real person beneath the façade. This is the opposite of most people with BPD, who feel and express a very wide range of emotions.

This lack of empathy also means that someone with NPD has no capacity for intimacy. This is a hard message to take in, we know. But we encourage you to become honest about what's not beneath your loved one's veneer of superiority.

they do have a personality disorder, you can't expect them to act like a healthy, well-adjusted person. That sets them up for failure—and it sets you up for disappointment

According to MaryBelle Fisher, Ph.D., when a parent has BPD, the normal formation of the child's identity may be derailed. In our interview with Fisher she said, "The child's 'self' becomes a mechanism to regulate the borderline parent rather than an internal, cohesive event.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

De postmoderne mens lijdt aan een vreemde dissociatie, een nieuwe vorm van persoonlijkheidsverdubbeling. We klagen het systeem aan, staan er vijandig tegenover en voelen ons machteloos om het te veranderen. Anderzijds gedragen we ons op een manier die het systeem voortdurend bevestigt en uitbreidt.

Early people are anxious, on-time people are obsessive compulsive, and late people are hostile, or passively-aggressively hostile.

and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.

I'm beginning to think you couldn't make up a woman like this except as a character in a movie.

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.