Close friends Quote by Michael Dirda

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that.

— Ivo Graham

Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.

— Bill Pullman

I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the…

— Cillian Murphy

I have a big, flamboyant, open personality, which I think is why people may be saying these nice things about me.

— Kate Hudson

I have a strong personality - I know who I'm outside my work, and I'm nothing like the characters I portray.

— Bhumi Pednekar

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't…

— Nick Frost

I feel like I have a bit of a Type A personality.

— Leslie Jamison

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be…

— Dickey Betts

I tend to be melodramatic and super self-involved.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

— Dolly Parton

I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

— Joel Salatin