Personality Analysis Quotes

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

Someday, Dante, I will discover how your mind works

The relief of 'Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami' is that it seeks to square the person with the provocateuse.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

If we understood, as we do not, the physical bases for intellectual structures, I have little doubt that we would find structures in the brain for social interactions, or language, or analysis of personality - a whole variety of systems developed on the basis of a specific biological endowment.

The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

Maybe I'm a control freak.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

She eyes me like a pisces.

I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.

My dissertation focused on the character traits and personality types of successful women.

It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone's personality.

I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.