Quotes About Portrayal

It's a great responsibility playing a real-life character because the person has reached a certain position after undergoing a lot of things.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.

I can't act, and so I have to live that particular character in my real life and then exhibit it on screen.

You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.

When I saw 'Louie' and 'Girls', I was blown out of the water. They were fearless portrayals of real life. Everyone has a different experience.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

I think it's important to play real people.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.

Playing a real person, it does add an extra level of thoughtfulness. You're portraying someone who actually existed, so instead of saying, like, 'OK, I think this would make the scene better,' it's more a question of, 'What do I think the real Jeffrey Dahmer would do?'

And I think when you're playing someone who is a real person, it's extremely important to take the time and put in the effort to learn about who they are to be able to respectfully portray that.

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.

Thank goodness for me, 'Smallville''s Lois Lane is younger, so there's a little bit of play with the character.

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

I love Ben Affleck. I think he will be a great Batman. Ben can bring the humanity to all his parts. He can play the good guy, the bad guy, but behind that grin he's got, there is always that humanity.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.