Famous People With The INFP Personality Type
Famous People With The INFP Personality Type
INFPs, also known as the idealists of the world, often find themselves pursuing creative lines of work because of the unique way their minds work and the way they express themselves creatively. It’s no surprise that a lot of them have gone on to be successful in their creative pursuits.
Oftentimes these people will be writers, but there have been a lot of INFPs who went on to do things outside the writing industry.
INFP celebrities
Writers
A. A. Milne
Author of ‘Winnie the Pooh’
"Even now, when I see my name in the paper, I feel that the world is intruding unduly on my privacy. I ought to be anonymous."
J.R.R. Tolkein
Author of ‘The Lord of the Rings’
"I often long to work at my nonsense fairy language and don't let myself 'cause though I love it, so it does seem such a mad hobby!"
C.S. Lewis
Author of ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’
"[I have] a boorish inaptitude for formality."
Virginia Woolf
Author
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
George Orwell
Author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ and ‘Animal Farm’
"I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Author of ‘The Little Prince’
"One sees well only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
Edgar Allan Poe
Poet and author
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
Franz Kafka
Author of ‘The Trial’
"You do not need to leave your room. ... Simply ... be quiet [and] the world will freely offer itself to you. ... It has no choice."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher and author
"Reason is greatly indebted to passion. The human race would long since have ceased to be, had its preservation depended only on reason."
Albert Campus
Philosopher and author
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
Soeren Kierkegaard
Philosopher and theologian
"To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous."
William Shakespeare
Playwright
"To thine own self be true."
Hans Christian Andersen
Author of ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘A Little Match Girl’
"The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things."
Augustine
Philosopher and theologian
"God did not intend that man should have power over his fellow man."
Homer
Author of ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’
"Hateful to me ... is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
George R.R. Martin
Author of ‘A Game of Thrones’
"My own heroes are the dreamers, those ... who tried to make the world a better place. ... Some failed ... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it."
Musicians
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana (band)
"I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there, and it really bothers me."
John Lennon
Singer-songwriter from The Beatles
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine (band)
"[I] always want things to be perfect, magical, or exciting. Things can't be that way all the time, so I'm constantly disappointed as well."
Bjork
Singer-songwriter
"I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.”
Thom Yorke
Radiohead (band)
"The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to."
Regina Spektor
Singer-songwriter
"My work is obviously personal - it's through me, it's my imagination, it's my emotions, I feel very, very connected to it."
John Mayer
Singer-songwriter
"It's not really hard to be expository on stage or to be shameless about how I feel ... because that's the way I am in life."
Matt Ballamy
Muse (band)
"Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world."
Actors and Filmmakers
Johnny Depp
Actor
"The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled."
Tim Burton
Filmmaker
"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
David Lynch
Filmmaker
"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings. ... Because the meaning is a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for someone else."
Robert Pattinson
Actor
"I'm always ready for my life to change. I'm always waiting for it to change."
Andrew Garfield
Actor
"The thing I get out of [acting] is ... inhabiting the world [of] the role. ... If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself ... then that's all I can really ask for."
Adam Driver
Actor
"I'm not ... a big fan of having a linear answer to things."
Heath Ledger
Actor
"I take great pride in my soul and the consistency and longevity of my love."
Mia Wasikowska
Actor
"I definitely identify with [the characters I've played], and I really love them for the certain amount of outsider-ness about them."
Hugh Laurie
Actor
"I dread any competitiveness. I find it completely inhibiting."
Marlon Brando
Actor
"I am myself, and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain myself, I will do it."
