Top 250 Portraying Quotes & Sayings

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

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 a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

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.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

I love portraying the totally indifferent person.

I'm not playing a fixed character on 'Comedy Nights Live;' in fact I would be seen portraying various characters.

Everybody knows Sai Baba. Being an actor, I had to be extremely convincing while portraying the role.

I don't make movies for the masses. My interest lies in portraying reality, and it gives me great satisfaction.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'

I was doing well for myself and wanted to play different roles and not just be happy portraying glamorous characters.

It is important for me to truly understand the people I am portraying and their struggles, in order to give an honest performance.

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

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 media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

I've always wanted to put my drag character in film because you can have total control over what you're projecting, what image you're portraying.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

At a certain period in time, the fashion industry was portraying this image of a totally unrealistic woman, women who are not allowed to be themselves.

I love portraying different characters.

I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen

There are a lot of movies that take place internationally, like Kung Fu Panda portraying a little bit of China, and Ratatouille portraying a little about Paris, but it's hard to find a movie that portrays Rio or Brazil.

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

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

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

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

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera.

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

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.

I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.

On 'Ghost In The Shell,' I'm looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!

I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

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

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

Hillary's [Clinton] been doing a good job of portraying [Donald] Trump as unqualified, not the right temperament.

The problem with Instagram is people aren't portraying their real selves.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

The papers are portraying Rafa as a parrot, just like they did when they showed Graham Taylor as an onion

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

I have never followed any sport in my life, I was always into music. So, portraying Sandeep Singh was challenging for me.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.

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.

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.