Quotes About Personality

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

I know some brands second-guess working with me because I'm a boy that likes makeup. I think brands shouldn't just appreciate boys that wear makeup, but they should embrace it. And I feel like some brands forget they need personality. I have plenty of it.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

Dad, who worked as a plumber, was a quiet and undemanding man who liked to laugh - and he was a very good dancer.

I would say Mick Jagger plus Mr. Furley equals Howard Wolowitz.

Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

Yes, I started out as an anchor on television, but that was just 'me being me,' trying to make some pocket money.

I've always found it funny in life when you meet people who are incredibly stupid and incredibly confident at the same time. Actually, there is nothing funnier. I mean, Donald Trump is a perfect example: he's essentially a seven-year-old on a podium.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

It is a long story how we finally ended up with the title simply being 'The Legend of Korra,' but in a poetic way, I think Korra's big Type A personality willed it to happen!

Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.

That's management. It's a social job as much as anything else, finding out what people are like, seeing through them. There have been good players and not-so-good players who I have moved along because I thought there would be a clash of character.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.