Personality Layers Quotes

I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

Some people might say I'm two different people, but I think it's more like seven or eight.

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

I think that all people are many people. I think all people have many, many, many different souls inside, and they just shift from one to the other.

Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality... is conscious and alert... The lower personality is a... perfect fool, but without it there is no literature.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

My take on people and on the characters I play in Transsiberian, the role you're looking for, is that everybody is more than one thing. We're many things, all of us, and there are times when we are capable of great levity and jolliness and then there are times when the opposite is true.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

I definitely have a lot of different layers inside of me.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.

I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.

In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

You can't just be the same character forever. You've got to add some layers, show some personality.

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.