Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
~By Bruce Lee ~
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.
~By Laura Prepon ~
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.
~By R. L. Stine ~
I try to bring elements of my own personality to every character I've played, but I think I'm pretty similar to the character I'm playing now. The biggest departure would have to have been Freaks and Geeks Sara, who was this sort of subordinate and shy girl.
~By Lizzy Caplan ~
If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical.
~By Marg Helgenberger ~
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
~By Edward Bach ~
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
~By Juice Newton ~
To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.
~By Cyril Cusack ~
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality.
~By Bob Geldof ~
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 ~
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
~By Gordon Getty ~
I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.
~By Leif Garrett ~
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.
~By Bill Budge ~
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
~By Elvis Costello ~
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 ~
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
~By Edward Albee ~
At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
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 ~
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
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 ~
You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.
~By Michael Fassbender ~
You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.
~By David Ogilvy ~
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
~By Dawn French ~
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
~By Georg Simmel ~
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
~By Oliver Joseph Lodge ~
An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
~By Peter De Vries ~
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 ~
I am a private person and that has always been my personality.
~By Grete Waitz ~
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
~By Sarah Palin ~
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 ~
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
~By Marc Newson ~
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 ~
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
~By Bill Ford ~
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
~By Billy Bragg ~
When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.
~By Tia Carrere ~
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
~By Mae West ~
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
~By Jackie Cooper ~
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
~By Susan Powter ~
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 ~
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.
~By Paul Kane ~
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
~By Herbert Read ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am an addictive personality.
~By Trisha Goddard ~
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
~By King Hussein I ~
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.
~By John Badham ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
~By Kathy Najimy ~
I think all photographers fit their vision to their personality.
~By Kim Weston ~
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
~By Paul Tournier ~
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.
~By Brian Eno ~
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.
~By Julian Clary ~
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 ~
It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.
~By Stone Gossard ~
I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
~By Zoe Wanamaker ~
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
~By Joaquin Phoenix ~
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
~By Ziggy Marley ~
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 ~
Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative.
~By Christy Romano ~
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
~By Chevy Chase ~
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 ~
I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.
~By Princess Masako ~
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
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 ~
Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.
~By Natalie Portman ~
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
~By Trevor Huddleston ~
Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
~By Tara Strong ~
Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
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 ~
And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
~By Erich Fromm ~
I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
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 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 do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
~By Joe Murray ~
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 ~
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
~By Elliott Carter ~
On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.
~By Bill Budge ~
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 ~
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