Personality Critique Quotes

He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Elvis was a sweet darling, shy fellow, but he was really boring.

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.

There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.

Penn Cage I think of as annoyingly righteous sometimes. He's almost too good.

I am not going to argue about whether I am a nasty guy.

If you wish my opinion of Theodore Roosevelt, it is that he might make a passable king, a very fair newspaper man, an admirable circus impresario; but as President he is as monstrous as would be Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in a Salome dance.

Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.' ... 'She doesn't have soul,' Gazzy scoffed. 'Have you ever seen her dance?

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

I love music and I love musicians. I separate them. I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.