Top 689 Portray Quotes & Sayings

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

To be honest, TV can portray you in whatever way they want to portray you.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

I do not portray the thing in itself. I portray the passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people put it, from seven years to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

On stage, I like to portray my different sides as much as possible.

I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.

The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards - I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox - but they're going to portray - they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as the young and dynamic and optimistic and all this. There's going to be this glow about them this summer, that is going to be worth - collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points.

As an actor, I am open to all possible characters that I can portray.

I don't have an image that I'm trying to like portray. I'm just being me.

I think it's easy for them to portray me as an aggressive player, but I'm not.

Some people seek to understand, and some people seek to portray what they want to portray.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

Society doesn't portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative freedom to create a song on a whim with whomever I choose and at whatever time I choose to do it. It's more liberating artistically and that's why I've stuck with it. It's a good balance to be able to portray a character and also be myself in avenues that I'm passionate about.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

I wish I were as tough and strong as the women that I'm lucky enough to portray.

When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

I was shaped in college into a performance artist. I never really thought of myself as being one singular thing. I think of myself as an artist and I feel no restrictions when it comes to how I want to portray what I want to portray.

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

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.

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

Initially, women only had to portray married wife roles on TV, but now there are show that are offering other roles to portray for women. Earlier, all drama used to revolve only around married women, which is not the case now. Even the male actors have a good opportunity for better roles now.

You can pick and choose how to portray yourself.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

One doesn't necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I think an actor should portray all kinds of emotions in films.

I don't see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.

There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.

I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.

I feel responsible to my people to portray them the way we should be.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

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