All artists are now free to express their own personality.
~By Maurice Denis ~
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
~By Herbert Read ~
Personality is lower than partiality.
~By Goldwin Smith ~
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
~By John Badham ~
This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
~By Jim Garrison ~
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
~By Frank Luntz ~
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
~By William Albert Allard ~
I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.
~By Rich Little ~
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
~By Georg Simmel ~
My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.
~By Regina King ~
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
~By Shawn Ashmore ~
The core of my personality consists of many selves.
~By Hans Bender ~
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
~By George H. Mead ~
He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
~By William Daniels ~
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
~By Frank Stella ~
I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.
~By Chris Hemsworth ~
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
~By Dennis Potter ~
We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
~By Albert Camus ~
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.
~By Judy Holliday ~
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.
~By Marvin Bower ~
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
~By Corin Nemec ~
You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
~By Henny Youngman ~
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.
~By Germaine Greer ~
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
~By Elsie De Wolfe ~
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
~By Gabrielle Reece ~
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.
~By Sophie Tucker ~
Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes.
~By Mike Epps ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
~By Kathy Najimy ~
The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
~By William Jackson ~
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
~By Ed O'Neill ~
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
~By King Hussein I ~
We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
~By Lindsay Davenport ~
I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
~By Zoe Wanamaker ~
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.
~By Steven Pinker ~
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
I have an unfortunate personality.
~By Orson Welles ~
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
~By Leif Garrett ~
I brought my personality and sense of wonder and I think they wrote as much of my personality as they could. I do not go around kicking butt and saving the universe all the time but they tried to capture me as best as they could in the character.
~By Gil Gerard ~
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
~By Fernand Leger ~
And I'm not a personality; otherwise I'd be coming out with an album, performing on MTV. All that stuff is possible and I can do that tomorrow. I just have no need.
~By Shia LaBeouf ~
Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach.
~By Mark Messier ~
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.
~By Robert Morgan ~
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
~By Barbara Cartland ~
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
~By Ann Sothern ~
Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.
~By Joshua Lederberg ~
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~By Peter De Vries ~
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
~By Michael Gambon ~
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
~By Laurette Taylor ~
I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?
~By Corin Nemec ~
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
~By Gene Simmons ~
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
~By Mae West ~
I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
~By Spencer Tracy ~
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
~By Steven Biko ~
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
~By Alec Guinness ~
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.
~By Nadia Boulanger ~
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
~By Shirley Chisholm ~
If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.
~By Marg Helgenberger ~
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~By David Brooks ~
Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
~By Michael Gartner ~
And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
~By Trish Stratus ~
Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
~By Victor Garber ~
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
~By C. Wright Mills ~
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
~By Rachael Leigh Cook ~
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.
~By Julie London ~
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
~By Sara Gilbert ~
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
~By M. Esther Harding ~
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
~By Paul Harris ~
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