Portraying Quotes - Page 2

• I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

  Mick Jagger

  Hate, Should Have, White

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Reality, Self, Organization

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History”, p.428, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

  Joe Manganiello

  Real, Thinking, Track

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

  Erland Josephson

  Men, Obsessed

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Vulgarity Is, Tragedy, Comedy

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• Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.

  Laurette Taylor

  Beautiful, Character, Feet

  "The Quality You Need Most". Green Book Magazine, April 1914.

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

  Bobby Gould

  Onions, Paper, Parrots

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

  LaMont Jordan

  Jobs, Reality, Thinking

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• My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.

  Taylor Swift

  Believe, Careers, Ideas

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• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

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• If you listen to Barack Obama, if you listen to Hillary Clinton, they're portraying Donald Trump as this deep, dark, dividing, dank presence that sees America as dwindling away and failing and everybody's in bad shape. They think they're the paragons of optimism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dark, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Drawing, Labyrinth

  Sean Kernan, Jorge Luis Borges (1999). “The secret books”, Leete'S Island Books

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

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, People, Feelings

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• 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.

  Javier Bardem

  Emotional, Weight, Body

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• It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

  Virginia Wade

  Kings, Thinking, People

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• I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. "Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?"

  Martha Plimpton

  Best Friend, Character, Thinking

  "Searching for Debra Winger". Documentary, July 13, 2002.

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• They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Couple, Reality, Two

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

  John Cleese

  Character, Mean, Bully

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• 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.

  Bruce Beresford

  Character, Singers, Wonderful

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• I'm not saying you need to become a spokesperson for every cause your character goes through, but it's important to absolutely do the best job we can in portraying a disease, and all the crap that goes with it.

  Monica Potter

  Jobs, Character, Best Job

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.

  Heath Ledger

  Kids, People, Goal

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• You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

  Jamie Dornan

  Nice, Character, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Mark Schwahn

  Thinking, Littles, Way

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• 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.

  Michael Rapaport

  Mean, Way, Honest

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 1, 2011.

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• What I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like People and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Character, Love Is, People

  Source: collider.com

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