Quotes About Portrayal

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.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

If you don't see me act, my work is done. The actor must never take the character beyond the scope of the movie.

I have absolutely no problem on doing a negative character. If that matches up to my acting caliber, I will definitely do that.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

The various schools, dergahs, ashrams, tekkes, organizations, and holistic centers that purportedly teach paths to 'enlightenment' have some poor track records of late. To cover up their students' widespread lack of enlightenment, the teachers of these schools portray enlightenment as something that is infrequent, unusual and difficult to achieve.

the thing about portraits is, you need to show people the way they want to be seen. And I prefer to show people as I see them.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

They don't always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn't be allowed to do that! How dare they do 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and not have dwarfs!

There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown... But I think most folks realize I wrote this book not to disparage the hometown but to really try to understand why so many kids who grew up like I did struggled.

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

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

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

I find it rare to see truly complex portraits of women on film.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

I don't think the physical resemblance is as important as capturing the soul of the person that the actor is portraying. How much like Charlie Chaplin did Robert Downey Jr. look in 'Chaplin?' Did Meryl Steep actually resemble Nora Ephron in 'Heartburn?'

I understand the whole constant foreigner stereotype, but for me it's important to portray immigrant characters like Jian-Yang and Danny Meng with humanity.