Quotes About Portrayal

My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I'm thinking is what I'm portraying as well.

I've been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very frustrated when they see hearing people portraying a deaf role.

I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.

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.

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think we get to see that enough in television.

It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you're portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.

The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.

Actors like me endeavour to look for great roles and portraying them to the best of our ability. At times, it's noticed; at times, it's not.

I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

At independent shows the crowd are very involved and it's about interacting with the live audience. With WWE that's less important and it's more about portraying your character and getting it across to as many people as possible.

I wouldn't say portraying a character in a film like 'Wanted' was easy. But it was fairly easier than playing a role where one is expected to emote more depth on screen.

In portraying Jang Han-seok, I tried to draw upon certain aspects of myself and emphasize expressions of evil from deep within.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.