Personality Study Quotes

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

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

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.