Personality Quotes

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

~ Chevy Chase

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

~ Catherine Tate

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

~ Epictetus

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

~ Salvador Dalí

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

I discourage a cult of personality.

~ Newt Gingrich

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

~ Frank Luntz

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

~ Nargis Fakhri

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

~ Jane Campion

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

~ Skylar Grey

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

~ Jay London

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a sense of ownership for his or her jet. What's more, like cars, each aircraft has its own personality, so it's important for a pilot to get to know and love his aircraft.

~ Simon Sinek

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

~ Helen Fisher

I can't change my personality. I'll always smile, but I'll be more focused.

~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

~ Alessia Cara

I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

~ Faith Hill

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

~ Harvey Fierstein

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

~ Marcus Buckingham

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.

~ T. S. Eliot

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

~ Francois Nars

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

~ Daniel Woodrell

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

~ Jenna Dewan

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

~ Maxwell Maltz

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

~ Dawn French

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

~ Larry Hagman

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

~ Mary Douglas

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

~ Lev Vygotsky

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

~ Carolina Herrera

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

~ Dolores Huerta

My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.

~ Tess Gerritsen

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

~ Gordon Ramsay