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In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray. — Anupam Kher

The Romany culture is not really in the media that much and Jack Thorne wanted to portray that. — Yasmin Paige

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything. — John Piper

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' — Randeep Hooda

In your ex-wife's stingy, slutty pussy, is the subtle point I'm trying to portray. — R.K. Lilley

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. — D.H. Lawrence

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts. — Zadie Smith

I can make you part of something great and beautiful and still portray you as the ugly thing you are — Tarryn Fisher

Art reflects society. Cinema doesn't dictate - you portray what the society demands. — Sonam Kapoor

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. — Kelli O'Hara

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself. — Chester Brown

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us. — Madhuri Dixit

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time. — Beau Willimon

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way. — Michael Glawogger

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

I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character. — Jacquelyn Jablonski

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient. — Mary Ellen Mark

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap. — Steve Carell

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week. — Hattie McDaniel

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

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way. — Anita Desai

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do. — Gina McKee

Don't portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are. — Kathryn Harrison

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

There are many ways to portray darkness and evil and it isn't all in being mean and tough. — Mat McNerney

I set my genius to portray the pleasures of cruelty! These are no fickle, artificial delights, they began with man and with him they will die. — Comte De Lautreamont

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target. — Norman Schwarzkopf

They portray me as all these crazy things and I'm so not like that. I don't have entourages, I'm as normal as you can get in this lifestyle. — Kate Moss

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that. — Terry Crews

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

For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them. — Amish Tripathi

I won't say I'm the baddest, or portray that role,
But I'm in the top 2, and my father's gettin' old. — Big Daddy Kane

Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian? — Michael Medved

We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into your bedroom and then your bed. — Isabelle Rowan

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way. — Tom Weston-Jones

All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations ... they are all Darwinists. — Harun Yahya

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself. — Chelsea Handler

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. — Harvey Pekar

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. — Sylvia Kristel

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

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

I think most people don't exactly know what they're doing, 100%, but they portray themselves as if they do. — Joe Hahn

The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal. — Haruki Murakami

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. — Meryl Streep

Q: Is 30 Rock the most racist show on television? A: No, in my opinion it's NFL football. Why do they portray all those guys as murderers and rapists? — Tina Fey

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

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in. — Jamie Campbell Bower

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

As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well. — Catherine Hicks

Philosophy seeks to explain life and portray how life should be lived — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If I'm going to portray one of my idols and someone I feel ... so strongly about, it has to be done right, and it has to be done 120 percent. — Zendaya

Young guys don't tend to want to portray people who have frailties or are less than macho. — Samuel L. Jackson

I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal. — Jon Huertas

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray. — Max Von Sydow

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. — Bela Lugosi

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king. — N. T. Wright

How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. — Thomas S. Monson

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper. — Heather Graham Pozzessere

I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west. — Orhan Pamuk

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it. — Grace Jones

I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling. — Dakota Johnson

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa

I portray a hard-ace shell on the outside; strong, unapproachable and a rebel. But on the inside, I'm a gooey, emotional, scaredy cat mess. — Shelly Crane

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me. — Sophie Okonedo

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God. — Billy Graham

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for. — Daniel Sharman

when we choose the roles we want to play we want to portray our best self. PREPARE FOR THE ROLE YOU WANT, NOT THE ROLE YOU HAVE. — Sally Bennett

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there. — Nicole Mones

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. — Catherine Bell

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray. — Jonathan Jackson

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. — David Byrne

Many people have this memory of traditional TV documentary-making that aims to portray pure reality, and I just don't see that as the only option. — Alex Gibney

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny. — Lady Gaga

While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day. — Regina King

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as. — Mario Chalmers

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you. — Constantin Stanislavski

The most challenging thing is how to portray someone that is so well known that people still recall him in a very precise way. — Gaspard Ulliel

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense — Errol Flynn

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray. — Todd Stocker

We have this sort of false self we portray over the internet. It's a facade of highlights we believe our peers will deem noteworthy. — Chris Matakas

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

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. — Iris Murdoch

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray. — Dominic Cooper

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. — Christopher Stocking

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you. — Maureen O'Hara

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

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

Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse. — Stephen Richards

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill

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

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively, — Michael Jackson

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego ... — Igor Babailov

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from. — Wiz Khalifa

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics. — Allison Silverman

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. — Lois Lowry

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