Selected personality quotes

1. I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

2. Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously.

3. Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

4. I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

5. I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

6. I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

7. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

8. Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

9. Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

10. An empty man is full of himself.

11. A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

12. Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

13. Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

14. It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

15. I want to resume the life of a shy person.

16. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

17. I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

18. I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

19. A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

20. I'm not hard to get along with.

21. Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

22. I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

23. The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.

24. I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

25. I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

26. Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

27. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

28. I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

29. I know of nothing more exciting than war.

30. Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

31. One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

32. I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

33. I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

34. Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

35. Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

36. Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

37. The life and ventures of Mickey Mouse have been closely bound up with my own personal and professional life. It is understandable that I should have sentimental attachment for the little personage who played so big a part in the course of Disney Productions and has been so happily accepted as an amusing friend wherever films are shown around the world. He still speaks for me and I still speak for him.

38. I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

39. Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

40. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

41. There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.

42. Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

43. Stiffy was one of those girls who enjoy in equal quantities the gall of an army mule and the calm insouciance of a fish on a slab of ice.

44. My Aunt Agatha, for instance, is tall and thin and looks rather like a vulture in the Gobi desert, while Aunt Dahlia is short and solid, like a scrum half in the game of Rugby football. In disposition, too, they differ widely. Aunt Agatha is cold and haughty, though presumably unbending a bit when conducting human sacrifices at the time of the full moon, as she is widely rumoured to do, and her attitude towards me has always been that of an austere governess, causing me to feel as if I were six years old and she had just caught me stealing jam from the jam cupboard: whereas Aunt Dahlia is as jovial and bonhomous as a dame in a Christmas pantomime.

45. Genio es personalidad con dos duros de talento.

46. I like the Queen... and I think she liked me.

47. He's wound up like a thousand day clock.

48. She was fun and accessible, thats why people loved her.

49. They had made the mistake of thinking of a personality as some sort of possession, like a suit of clothes, which a person wears. But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person. The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

50. I often found him warm and humourous.

51. I was the only man he trusted.

52. People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy... It is in a glass jar on my desk.

53. 'You know how you once had that thing where the wrestler rode a little bus all over the country, shakin' hands, and kissing babies? You should have a Stone Cold Express, where I get out in every town and kick everyone's ass. At least that wouldn't suck.' (to Vince McMahon, referring to Lex Luger's 'Lex Express')

54. 'DTA (Don't trust Austin)'

55. The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

56. I'm a nice Greek boy.

57. You don't marry Mel Brooks, if you don't have a sense of humor. ~ Arthur Penn

58. He is a singular character - a young man with much of wild original nature still remaining in him; and so far as he is sophisticated, it is in a way and method of his own. He is as ugly as sin, long-nosed, queer-mouthed, and with uncouth and rustic, though courteous manners, corresponding very well with such an exterior. But his ugliness is of an honest and agreeable fashion, and becomes him much better than beauty. He was educated, I believe, at Cambridge, and formerly kept school in this town; but for two or three years back, he has repudiated all regular modes of getting a living, and seems inclined to lead a sort of Indian life among civilized men - an Indian life, I mean, as respects the absence of any systematic effort for a livelihood. ... Mr. Thoreau is a keen and delicate observer of nature - a genuine observer - which, I suspect, is almost as rare a character as even an original poet; and Nature, in return for his love, seems to adopt him as her especial child, and shows him secrets which few others are allowed to witness.

59. Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. ~ William Saroyan

60. In man, personality is usually defined with reference to self-consciousness rather than to individuality; but the power of reflection and self-knowledge is linked up, in our type of personality at least, with the new flight of individuality - conscious memory seems necessarily to imply a vast increase of independence, so that it is all one whether we define the possessor of personality as a self-conscious individual, or as an individual whose individuality is more extensive both in space and time than the material substance of his body. Personality, as we know it, is free compared with the individuality of the lower animals; but it is still weighted down with the body. There may be personalities which have not merely transcended substance, but are rid of it altogether: in all ages the theologian and the mystic have told of such 'disembodied spirits,' postulated by the one, felt by the other, and now the psychical investigator with his automatic writing and his cross-correspondences is seeking to give us rigorous demonstration of them. If such exist, they crown Life's progress...

61. My father was as proud of his eloquence as MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO could be for his life, and and for aught I am convinced of to the contrary at present, with as much reason: it was indeed his strength - and his weakness, too. - His strength - for he was by nature eloquent - and his weakness - for he was hourly a dupe to it; and provided an occasion in life would but permit him to shew his talents, or say either a wise thing, a witty, or a shrewd one - (bating the case of a systematic misfortune)- he had all he wanted.- A blessing which tied up my father's tongue, and a misfortune which let it loose with a good grace, were pretty equal: sometimes, indeed, the misfortune was the better of the two; for instance, where the pleasure of the harangue was as ten, and the pain of the misfortune was as five - my father gained half in half, and consequently was as well again off, as if it had never befallen him.

62. He was so natural; so good live... He knew how to talk to everybody. ~ Peter Mansbridge, CBC-TV

63. Bubble gum brainiac Baby girl, ultra brat Angst Schmangst No thanks Hope my record doesn't tank Sailor moon, Rainbow brite Anime,Avril lite Pro tools all the way Hey,hey,hey,hey

64. Mozart said profound things and at the same time remained flippant and lively. ~ Michael Kennedy

65. Smartmouth