A Quote by Shonda Rhimes

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

Shonda Rhimes

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Shonda Rhimes
American - Producer
Born: January 13, 1970

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.

Spike Lee

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Gore Vidal

Teens are being portrayed with depth because they are multidimensional, and they deserve to be portrayed as such.

Kiernan Shipka

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

Gina Carano

We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.

Gioconda Belli

I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

Robert Kurson

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

Simone de Beauvoir

So many times we're portrayed in ways that we don't want to be portrayed, in ways that make us seem so ridiculous.

Justina Machado

I have been fortunate at being part of a contrasting genre of films and I portrayed a huge range of characters in these two decades.

Rituparna Sengupta

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

Kiernan Shipka

"Vote for one; get both of us." Campaign slogan. She [Hillary Clinton] was constantly portrayed as a co-president even during the campaign. The Smartest Woman in the World. That's how they portrayed her to us.

Rush Limbaugh

I want to be remembered as the different characters I have portrayed.

Lee Je-hoon

Nicole Garcia has always portrayed characters in a very human and complex way.

Stacy Martin

Two words guided the making of 'Babel' for me: 'dignity' and 'compassion.' These things are normally forgotten in the making of a lot of films. Normally there is not dignity because the poor and dispossessed in a place like Morocco are portrayed as mere victims, or the Japanese are portrayed as cartoon figures with no humanity.