Portraying Quotes

Portraying Quote of the day

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean, uptight, incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that are perhaps not very morally acceptable. I'm not the only one.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

I like to think there's still right and wrong. We blur that a lot. When we celebrate misdeeds instead of portraying them as missteps, we've lost our way a little bit.

I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.

Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people.