Tanit Phoenix Quotes

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I've done that in everything.

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I think probably the qualities that I look for in a man are somewhat different than they were before I became a public person, but not that much different. I think that, sort of, the element of trust is certainly much bigger for me, but the other things that - the other qualities, intelligence and kindness and sense of humor, those things.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I've hung on for a long time in this business and had some success, and I think it's keeping an open mind and being curious and having a sense of humor about oneself that's important.

The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always empathic. It's always kind and compassionate.

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.