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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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 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