Portraying Quotes

70 quotes by 67 authors

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This… — Albert Bandura
When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go… — Javier Bardem
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot
It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within… — Virginia Wade
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American… — Sherman Alexie
There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to… — Chris Eyre
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films… — Isabelle Huppert
Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me. — John Cleese
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a… — Kyra Sedgwick
Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal,… — Hugo Weaving
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the… — Constantin Stanislavski
I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character… — Martha Plimpton
I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not. — LaMont Jordan
They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty… — Dawn Ostroff
The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine. — Alastair Campbell
Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today… — Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. — Dario Argento
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… — Ike Turner
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. — Jeannette Rankin

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