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  • ILE (ENTp)

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  • SLE (ESTp)

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  • LSI (ISTj)

    1 33.33%
  • SEE (ESFp)

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    some quotes from IMDB:

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    [on his role in Carrie (1976)]: I wanted to work with Brian De Palma. I knew the film would be interesting and attract a lot of attention.

    I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn't go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

    There is nothing gay in this movie (Hairspray (2007)). I'm not playing a gay man. Scientology is not homophobic in any way. In fact, it's one of the more tolerant faiths. Anyone's accepted.

    When they asked me to be Edna Turnblad I said, "Gee, 32 years as a leading man -- why me? What makes you think I'd be the perfect woman?".

    As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes, you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others. You have to go out of your way to activate your dreams and keep them going in this third chapter of your life.

    [on his role as Edna in Hairspray (2007)] It was tough dancing in high heels, but we did change the heels to more of a dance shoe - like a Capezio. You know they kept giving me these skinny high heels and it's like, "Okay, I understand those. My mother wore those." However, when I was growing up and I saw girls in the chorus, they had a thicker heel and it was a dance shoe and I kept telling them to find those shoes. I knew they existed, and finally they brought out a shoe and I said, "That's the shoe! Now make it in many colors.".

    [on Saturday Night Fever (1977)]: I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.

    [on how the late James Gandolfini consoled him after the death of his son] James went out of his way to come to Florida and he would not leave Florida until I was okay, or he felt that I would be fine. After a week I said, 'Jim you can really, you can, you know, we'll be fine. I've got a lot of support here.' But the idea that in our profession someone would go out of their way and not want to leave you until he felt you were okay, that's the kind of soul that James Gandolfini was. My father sold tires to his father. I was his inspiration to get into the business. He would see pictures of me on the wall from movies and he decided that he wanted to be an actor. He was a people person first and then everything else. He was this beautiful man and I love him very much.

    [on being cast in Pulp Fiction (1994)] There was a rumor that a young new director who had directed a film called Reservoir Dogs (1992) was quite interested in working with me. And his name was Quentin Tarantino. I said, "Sounds good. He's talented. I saw the movie. I would love to meet him, too." After six or seven hours of hanging out, he verbally presented two ideas to me. One was the vampire movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the other one was Pulp Fiction. I responded to Pulp Fiction but I didn't respond to From Dusk Till Dawn, and he noticed that. So at the end of the meeting he said, "I'm curious. You seem to like the Pulp Fiction one, but you did not respond as much to the other." I said, "Well, it's simple, Quentin. I'm just not a vampire guy.".

    To be honest, I thought "Pulp" would have the same fate as Reservoir Dogs (1992), meaning it would be an art house movie that would have a smaller audience. I never thought it would have a mainstream audience; I thought it was too unique of a movie to hit a commercial note. And when it did, it surprised all of us, I think, because we were going to be fine with it having the same success as Reservoir Dogs. But that it would become Forrest Gump (1994) was a whole other idea.

    My best quality? The transparency in my eyes. I only have to think a thought and it's seen.

    I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

    [on dancing with Princess Diana at the White House in 1985] There really was something lovely and girlish about her and I felt that I had taken her back to her childhood when she had probably watched Grease (1978) and for that moment I was her Prince Charming.

    [on his plans for after the 2014 Oscars ceremony] I don't drink very much, but I wait until Oscar night to have my drinks. So now I'm ready to stay out until five in the morning. We're gonna do Vanity Fair, then we're gonna do Madonna's party, and we're gonna have fun tonight. I'm not gonna be happy until we see the sun rise.

    Every time I did an interview after Moment by Moment (1978), they went right for the negative things first. I feel that the criticism after the film became abusive. It went beyond mere criticism. You would have thought Lily (Tomlin) and I had committed murder. I thought, my God, don't ever do a movie people don't like; they'll murder you.

    One's own life is not as colourful as a character that's created in a movie because they go through a million colours in a short period of time. In one's own life, it may take four years to go through those colours.

    [on the death of his teenage son Jett] The worst thing that's ever happened in my life. The truth is, I didn't know if I was going to make it. Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better.

    [on the death of Robin Williams] I've never known a sweeter, brighter, more considerate person than Robin. Robin's commitment as an artist to lifting our mood and making us happy is compared to none. He loved us all and we loved him back.

    [2014] My films have an interesting continuous effect. Grease (1978) for some reason never went away. Do you know that to this day, every year, the Hollywood Bowl charges $275 a ticket to sit in an audience with a 36-year-old film and sing along to it? I've never heard of anything like that in my life. So there is some magic to that particular film. There's other films like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939) that don't end either, but this has a continuous new audience, as opposed to, "oh, that's an old movie". No one looks at Grease as an old movie. It just keeps on living. That's how I view it, as a gift to the public and myself as an ongoing thing.

    [2014] In the old days, you didn't do a movie three times a year; you did a movie once every year and a half or every three years. You had a lot of time between films. I remember taking violin lessons, painting lessons, French lessons, you know, to fill my time. Otherwise you get in trouble. But the memories of all the films are wonderful.

    My mother was an acting teacher. She taught more of the existentialist style, which was that acting is believing that you're in the moment with the other actor, and I like that. I'm more comfortable portraying what I'm feeling at the moment and not knowing what I'm going to do next.

    I watched this Fellini movie when I was five called La Strada (1954) and I said to my father: "Why did Giulietta Masina die?" and he said: "She died of a broken heart." "You can die of a broken heart?" He said: "Yes, you can be so sad that you can die of a broken heart." "Without being ill?" He said: "Yes!" It changed my whole life. I never wanted to break anyone's heart, for sure! But it made me consider that. Most kids were considering other things; I was considering Giulietta Masina in a Fellini film.
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    Dual type (as per tcaudilllg)
    Enneagram 5 (wings either 4 or 6)?


    I'm constantly looking to align the real with the ideal.I've been more oriented toward being overly idealistic by expecting the real to match the ideal. My thinking side is dominent. The result is that sometimes I can be overly impersonal or self-centered in my approach, not being understanding of others in the process and simply thinking "you should do this" or "everyone should follor this rule"..."regardless of how they feel or where they're coming from"which just isn't a good attitude to have. It is a way, though, to give oneself an artificial sense of self-justification. LSE

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    ESTP

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno View Post
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    Really? What gives you that impression?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ConcreteButterfly View Post
    Really? What gives you that impression?
    well that guy of socionics.com or something had him as ILI.
    I would have never guessed it, but after a couple of years now, i've seen ILI-Te's who look like him. For example Urijah Faber (mma fighter), and a colleague of mine.
    So yeah my bet is on ILI-Te, he's also pretty soft spoken and kind, with this innocent look.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarno View Post
    well that guy of socionics.com or something had him as ILI
    the dude on socionics.com hardly uses physiognomy

    > he's also pretty soft spoken and kind, with this innocent look

    innocent look of Tavolta is lol. probably beta may see him such

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sol View Post
    the dude on socionics.com hardly uses physiognomy

    > he's also pretty soft spoken and kind, with this innocent look

    innocent look of Tavolta is lol. probably beta may see him such
    what makes you think ESTP? thanks for answering btw, I would add my own opinion but I want to see what other people think first.

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    ESI or SEI
    so definitely not intuitive or thinker?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maritsa View Post
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    please elaborate, how did you come to that conclusion Maritsa?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ConcreteButterfly View Post
    what makes you think ESTP?
    Same as with other my typings - intuitive impressions from his nonverbal behavior, mostly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ConcreteButterfly View Post
    so definitely not intuitive or thinker?
    All I'm thinking for sure is an F type who values Te/Fi and I'm leaning heavily on ESI. My first impression was strong Fi & strong Si, either one being the Base/Demonstrative but probably IJ temperament

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    Here's an early interview of him from 1978:


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    Static and sensing type according to his quotes, and Beta ST seems to be > Gamma SF.

    I'd go with Se-LSI 3w4 sx/so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sol View Post
    Same as with other my typings - intuitive impressions from his nonverbal behavior, mostly.
    you're a sensor, you don't have intuitive impressions silly. wait, you must actually be intuitive!

    anyway i think my dad got compared to him once before and my dad is EIE

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    John Travolta - ESFJ - Hugo


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    Last edited by khcs; 11-03-2020 at 12:02 PM.

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    Someone once compared him in looks to my dad who is EIE. I wonder if people with the same leading function ever resemble each other physically.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thegreenfaerie View Post
    Someone once compared him in looks to my dad who is EIE. I wonder if people with the same leading function ever resemble each other physically.
    Uh, that's the basis of VI?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
    Uh, that's the basis of VI?
    I don’t know Adam, I haven’t much researched VI. Seems like people make quadra connections as opposed to base function connections often times...but I guess you’re right, I have seen it latter done before.

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    I think silke is right (i agree with a lot of silke's typings), although there are a lot of photos of him where he doesn't have that blank expression that LSI-Se often have in photos and his eyes show a lot of emotion and charge when LSI-Se eyes often appear the opposite.

    LSI-Ti doesn't work well, because he's pretty adaptable and has better quantity of focus and likes attention so much and is comfortable with it. Doesn't have that adherence to just one major interest and life work like LSI-Ti usually have. His energy is also always on, even when he's not working or interacting with someone, which is somewhat at odds with being an LSI-Ti.

    ESI-Se might be it, but he seems kind of technical to be one, although I can be pretty into being technical too and the Fi subtype is supposed to be less technical than the Se subtype.
    I'm sorry, but I'm psychologically disturbed.


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    ESI
    my ideas about socionics:

    https://soziotypen.de/thoughts-on-socionics/

    the section will be updated ever other month or so.

    this is a VI thread with IEI examples

    https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...-(IEI-edition)

    and this is a thread with EIE examples

    https://www.the16types.info/vbulleti...s-EIE-examples

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    John Travolta - ESFJ Yesenin

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