Portraying Quotes

• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Giving, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

  Ike Turner

  Regret, Men, Light

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• I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

  Bob Newhart

  Indifferent, Persons

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

  Dorothy Malone

  Girl, Mother, Couple

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Sophie Marceau

  Pain, Childhood, Adults

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

  Dario Argento

  Men, Problem, Film

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• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hero, People, Care

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• All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

  Sherman Alexie

  Spiritual, Native American, Thinking

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• 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.

  Ed Asner

  Character, Essentials, Needs

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• There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to make another Dances With Wolves, because it's not an Indian movie. When Indians portray themselves, then we have a different perspective. I've been asked about making period pieces but I've never read one that wasn't about guilt, and I'm not trying to make a guilt film.

  Chris Eyre

  Thinking, Media, Perspective

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• I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Heart, Scripts

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

  Forest Whitaker

  Character, Thinking, People

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• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

  Halle Berry

  Not Afraid, Screens

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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• Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.

  Peter Hitchens

  Baby, Thinking, People

  "A calamity for women... just as the doctor predicted" by Peter Hitchens, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 27, 2007.

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

  Yousuf Karsh

  Greatness, People, Challenges

  Yousuf Karsh (1962). “In Search of Greatness: Reflections of Yousuf Karsh”, University of Toronto Press

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• I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where they two mutually inspire each other to live– if I’ m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Girl, Boys, Expression

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

  Jack Larson

  Art, People, Medieval

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• 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.

  Andy Serkis

  Heart, Character, Games

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• I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

  Grace Jones

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someones past, whether youre portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Thinking, Past, Creating

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.

  Augusto De Luca

  Cities, Emotion, Photograph

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