The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.
With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.
I don't want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. He's interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity gossip - I'm not interested in those.
When I first met George W. Bush, I had expected to meet Yale and I got West Texas.
I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.
I'm extremely hard to work with.
Does no one think to warn people before they meet me?" Vlad muttered, shooting an irritable look at Mencheres.
My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.
I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
It seems that Gerard Houllier did not appreciate my personality. It bothers him to have someone around who could stand up to him.
There was also talk of bringing Al Gore to California to help out, but there was concern that Gray Davis and Al Gore in the same state would cause some kind of rolling personality blackout.
My friends are not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them. If there were two Henry Clays, one of them would make the other President of the United States.
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
In 'Taxiwaala,' I am not Arjun Reddy. In fact, the two characters are so different that if they were to meet, they'd hate each other.
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.
Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
