My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character. — Denzel Whitaker Copy Share Image
Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be.… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie… — Donald Wildmon Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today… — Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Copy Share Image
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball… — Virginia Wade Copy Share Image
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter,… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done. — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of,… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a… — Josephine de La Baume Copy Share Image
They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of… — Dawn Ostroff Copy Share Image
