Best Portray Lines
193 Portray quotes by 180 unique authors
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are…
— Nathan Fillion
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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…
— Wiz Khalifa
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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
— D. H. Lawrence
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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…
— NeNe Leakes
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I'm very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing…
— Spike Lee
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To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.
— Bela Lugosi
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating…
— Tatiana Maslany
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When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to change my looks…
— Christopher Meloni
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The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have…
— Tom Morello
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Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball.…
— Julia Roberts
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Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the…
— Amanda Seyfried
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Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea…
— Wallace Shawn
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
— Zadie Smith
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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
— Meryl Streep
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I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through 'campaigns' of varying degrees of cynicism.
— Geoff Mulgan
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Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing…
— Jim Carroll
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Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with…
— Louis de Bernieres
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A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
— Jules Verne
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I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of…
— Alice Miller
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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
— Winston Churchill
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Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from…
— Lorenz Oken
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