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[ISTP] ISTP - More Famous People or Celberities

lauranna

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OK, so the websites seem to often say actors. i imagine it is hard to type actors well as we normally see them in an acting capacity playing someone else!
Stolen from one website here are their suggestions for ISTP celebs:
Vin Diesel
George Carlin
Kevin Spacey
Chris Daughtry
James Bond (Casino Royale)
Connor MacLeod (Highlander)
Léon (Léon)
Jean Valjean (Les Miserables)
Willie (Bad Santa)
Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)

Anyone got any comments or other suggestions? Or any females?!!! Or are the female ISTP's busy being self destructive riding motorbikes and doing drugs to become famous? Angelina Jolie anyone?
 

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Yeah i agree. I did think ISTP for Angelina, as i think she ticks a lot of ISTP boxes. but i can definitely see where the E could come from.
i think with Christian Bale and Scarlett are good examples. I see a lot of people argued your views on Scarlett Economica particularly over the I but i am going to agree with you on the I.
A lot of people would argue that i am an E simply because i have developed the ability to act as an E in a social situation. However, clearly i am an I.
Scarlett is a very talented actress and therefore i would think she was highly capable of acting like an extrovert in a social situation.

Don't really know enough about Ellen Page and Katy Perry really to comment.
But thanks very much for your opinions. x
 

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Yeah i agree. I did think ISTP for Angelina, as i think she ticks a lot of ISTP boxes. but i can definitely see where the E could come from.

We didn't touch upon this in the thread as I recall, but the size of her family surely speaks to ESTP. Would any ISTP want 6+ kids under the age of 8? :shock:
 

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well i can say i sure as hell wouldn't want 6 kids or any kids in fact! but then i'm not sure that that is just my type.... I have never really been around kids(except when i was one) and i just don't mesh well with them.
I don't know actually. now that you mention it, are you basing the E on any other aspect of Angelina's personality? I kind of still see her as a bit of an I.
I mean if we looked at Angelina from 10 years ago- Self harming/motorbikes/impulsive marriages/bisexuality/tattoos/ obsession with danger, she is looking very much like a typical ISTP.
I think it is hard to type someone you have never met, but i think there is a fair argument for her being an I.

I guess in my attempt to explain the children thing, i have stolen this quote from Socionics.com. I think it is showing an extreme version of ISTP but nevertheless:

The most obvious thing that could give ISTps away is probably their obsession with pets. Sometimes it could reach ridiculous dimensions, turning ISTp's place into a zoo. This obsession is very closely connected with ISTp's hidden agenda. Since ISTps have unconscious need to be able to show their affection towards another, who could be a better suitable candidate for this than a pet, or better a dozen of them. People can reject your love and your good intentions, pets will never.

So my theory is that Angelina is using a child, or better still a dozen children as objects for her affection that will never reject her.

Anyway, there's my theory for the mix! Are there any other arguments for her E rather than I?
 

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We didn't touch upon this in the thread as I recall, but the size of her family surely speaks to ESTP. Would any ISTP want 6+ kids under the age of 8? :shock:

Would any sane person?
 

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Would any sane person?

Haha, point taken!

I don't know actually. now that you mention it, are you basing the E on any other aspect of Angelina's personality? I kind of still see her as a bit of an I.
I mean if we looked at Angelina from 10 years ago- Self harming/motorbikes/impulsive marriages/bisexuality/tattoos/ obsession with danger, she is looking very much like a typical ISTP.

Is it more ISTP than ESTP? :huh: (Not rhetorical.)

She doesn't strike me as Ti dominant. More action, less self-containment. Admittedly I'm very vibe-oriented which I know drives you STPs crazy. :D IIRC I tried to crystallize it in the thread.

(Maybe a mod should move these posts to the AJ thread...?)
 

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Surprisingly I've seen actress Grace Kelly classified as ISTP. I've read a bit about her and I agree with at least the IST - part. She was a real wild-woman underneath her cool as ice exterior (which BTW was mostly manufactured by the studios she worked for).

I've also read that actress Ashely Judd is ISTP and this I believe. She even fits the stereotype - loves race cars (and race-car drivers!), football, and apparently does her own landscaping/gardening.
 

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Clint Eastwood. But really, who cares about actors?
 

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Yeah i agree. I did think ISTP for Angelina, as i think she ticks a lot of ISTP boxes. but i can definitely see where the E could come from.

Are you kidding me? She's a complete opposite of an ISTP.

She's a nutbag ENFJ.
 

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David Letterman, Jim Rome, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Pete Sampras, Norm MacDonald, Sideshow Bob.
 

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I'ld name my father.

He is a successfull plumper, who invested more than a million euros in 2 houses. He cares for security of the future and besides his work, he has always been the greatest dad to me.

In my imagination he kills a T-Rex with his bare hands :D

I hope he will get a 100 years old, because I want to show him that I am going to carry his legacy further. :)
 

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I know this is about ISTPs, but I have always considered JKF and FDR ESTPs based on their biographies. There was an article in the Economist about FDR that confirms why I have always thought is that he is ESTP, as is John McCain. Here are some snippets:
Though he had patrician self-confidence, there was no snobbery in Roosevelt. Mr Brands quotes FDR’s friend, Ray Moley, as saying that there was nothing flabby about his charm: “When crossed he is hard, stubborn, resourceful, relentless.” Roosevelt was prepared to be radical to meet dangerous circumstances. Yet his instincts and the outcomes of many of his policies were often conservative. As a radical, he saved the old order—and advanced American power more than any other president since Jefferson.
Courage, charm, resourceful cunning and a hidden hardness enabled him to save American capitalism, though, as he said himself, it was Dr Win-the-War, not Dr New Deal, that ended the Depression. Mr Brands is masterly in describing the patience with which FDR brought the country to understand the danger of fascism. He is a bit less sure in his handling of international politics, adopting the traditional view that, in the strategic arguments over the second front, the American generals were right and Winston Churchill deluded by imperial nostalgia. He dismisses John Maynard Keynes as an “English intellectual”, in whom it was impertinence to offer advice to an American president, apparently unaware that Keynes was a player at the Paris peace conference.
He possessed the subtlest political mind of his generation. At the same time he was a master of point-to-point navigation, moving not by plan but by instinct, tempered by experience. Roosevelt was the greatest American president since Lincoln, his colossal abilities tested by personal illness, economic catastrophe and world war. He used every tool to hand to direct the United States in peace and war: party, bureaucracy, Congress and the media of the day.
 

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I don't know if anyone has said Michael Jordan yet. I've heard he's a confirmed ISTP.
 

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I don't know if anyone has said Michael Jordan yet. I've heard he's a confirmed ISTP.

Yeah that makes sense. I think Larry Bird is one as well.

ISTP might be a common type for the more admirable sports figures.
 

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Clint Eastwood. But really, who cares about actors?

I'd be more proud of the fact that one of his best characters, the man with no name, is an ISTP. I reckon Angel Eyes is an ISTJ.

And Frank Zappa and Bruce Lee... actually, Team ISTP has some pretty cool people on it. *jealous*
 
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