My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. ~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that. ~By Walter Matthau ~
There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality. ~By Bryan White ~
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors. ~By David Cronenberg ~
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. ~By Princess Masako ~
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 ~
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ~By Mose Allison ~
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ~By Henry Van Dyke ~
You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go. ~By Katie Couric ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick. ~By Kathy Najimy ~
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. ~By Salvador Dali ~
My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy. ~By Lee Greenwood ~
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 ~
You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. ~By Adam Baldwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. ~By Anthony Sampson ~
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 ~
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero. ~By Will McDonough ~
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ~By Barbra Streisand ~
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 ~
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. ~By Epictetus ~
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. ~By Quentin Tarantino ~
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities. ~By Walt Disney ~
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. ~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ~By Alfred Loisy ~
I never thought I'd say this, what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush. ~By Bill Maher ~
Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life. ~By Bela Lugosi ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ~By Georg Simmel ~
Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
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 ~
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success. ~By Mae West ~
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it. ~By Billie Jean King ~
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 ~
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. ~By J. B. Yeats ~
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes. ~By Julian Clary ~
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 ~
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 ~
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ~By Charles M. Schwab ~
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 ~
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. ~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention. ~By Bill Budge ~
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 ~
Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach. ~By Mark Messier ~
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 ~
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 look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it's unpredictable. You can't be off in outer space when you're dealing with animals. ~By Chris Cooper ~
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 ~
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. ~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. ~By Alexis Carrel ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. ~By Jonathan Coe ~
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 get to actually experience what it would be like to be a psycho, which is not a fun one, or to be a cowboy, or to be a weird character of some sort. For me, it suits me. It suits my personality. I'm an emotional kind of person anyway. ~By Josh Holloway ~
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. ~By Mark Strand ~
I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it. ~By James Laughlin ~
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality. ~By Kathleen Quinlan ~
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays. ~By Arthur Lowe ~
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 ~
The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
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 ~
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost. ~By Lloyd C. Douglas ~
The core of my personality consists of many selves. ~By Hans Bender ~
Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. ~By Erich Fromm ~
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 ~
Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality. ~By Julie London ~
Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. ~By Lukas Foss ~
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 am an addictive personality. ~By Trisha Goddard ~
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. ~By Meryl Streep ~
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. ~By Walter Pater ~
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. ~By Berkeley Breathed ~
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing. ~By Omar Sharif ~
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 have to choose songs that represent my personality. ~By Peabo Bryson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! ~By Amy Adams ~
I think I'm more European in personality. ~By Sally Kirkland ~
I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself. ~By Tyra Banks ~
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 ~
Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality. ~By Gracie Allen ~
My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two. ~By Edie Falco ~
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