Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

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

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.

Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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.

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.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

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.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

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.

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

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.

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.

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

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.