Personality Suppression Quotes

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

A cult is a cult, and that's what a frat is. A place where they strip you of your personality and rebuild it in their image.

It was not a good thing in my family to be a 'personality.'

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the characteristic of being fabricated. In American society appearances are masks, not faces. At the same time, proponents of the American way of life are hostile to personality.

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

For me, actresses are constantly chameleons, and so they are taking a backseat to their own personality. I don't feel like we're trying to show off their personality as much as let them be a blank slate. It's precisely the reason why I dress more musicians than I do actresses.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men, he is constantly acting a studied part. The bold and peculiar traits of native character are refined away or softened down by the levelling influence of what is termed good-breeding, and he practises so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for the purposes of popularity that it is difficult to distinguish his real from his artificial character.

I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged.

Usually, your personality doesn't come out on the cover of Vogue. If the photographer says, "Smile," you smile. You might not be in a good mood that day, but you're smiling anyway.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

I think if I hadn't become a writer I would just have suppressed that part of my personality. I think I would have put it in a box that I never opened.

It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.