Top 105 Portraying Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Portraying Quotes from famous people such as Jasmin Bhasin, LP, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Azzarello, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in t

I feel it’s very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.
Jasmin Bhasin
I studied Paul Simon’s ‘Slip Slidin’ Away’ and ‘Still Crazy After All These Years.’ I wanted to explore adult themes, portraying the hurt that’s in even a good relationship.
LP
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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 great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn’t do them. And I don’t want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
Kyra Sedgwick
I think portraying the Joker’s point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.
Brian Azzarello
Film is drama. You’ve only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
Shekhar Kapur
About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That’s how I was portraying myself.
Rachel Dolezal
While education is hugely important, the ways in which women are portrayed in their communities are equally important. Portraying women as victims keeps women in a captive space and denies them of their agency: their ability to fight back and take ownership of their situation.
Philomena Kwao
I like portraying heroes of antiquity whose values were grander and more spectacular than those of today.
Charlton Heston
I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn’t even live.
Kano
That’s the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
Kate Bosworth
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and ‘The Edge Of Love’ was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
Matthew Rhys
I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.
Sudha Murty
When you’re portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
Bel Powley
For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it’s about meeting a challenge that’s thrown at you.
Manoj Bajpayee
Portraying Pocahontas’ story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
Q’orianka Kilcher
‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough
I wouldn’t say portraying a character in a film like ‘Wanted’ was easy. But it was fairly easier than playing a role where one is expected to emote more depth on screen.
Ayesha Takia
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there’s nothing feminist about that.
Rebecca Hall
In the case of ‘Disobedience,’ the very secretive way of life and religion and tradition that the North London Orthodox Jewish community has was a huge invitation to explore an unknown world. And also a possible trap, and I tried to overcome that by portraying it, hopefully, with great nuance and detail and texture.
Sebastian Lelio
Everybody knows Sai Baba. Being an actor, I had to be extremely convincing while portraying the role.
Jackie Shroff
I use my hair as a tool for portraying characters. When I’m auditioning for a role, when I’m putting myself on tape for something, I always consider what the hairstyle is going to be because it changes the way people perceive me.
Camila Mendes
The message that you’re portraying, that’s what drives the type of people that follow you.
Lele Pons
We live in a world of social media, dating apps, online profiles where everyone is portraying themselves in 2D, trying to look cool. Portray yourself in three dimensions.
Matthew Hussey
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don’t think we get to see that enough in television.
Inbar Lavi
I don’t portray a terrorist. The American fans label me a terrorist. It doesn’t matter what I claim to be: in their eyes, I am whatever they say I am despite the fact that I’m not committing any ‘acts of terror.’ I ask you, how am I portraying a terrorist? Because I look like a Muslim?
Mustafa Ali
Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.
Lucas Till
My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is extraordinary – I’m amazed, thrilled, and proud to now be portraying one of that phenomenal writer’s characters.
Katherine Waterston
Making ‘Birdsong,’ on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that’s an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you’re portraying that character that he’s imagined and millions of readers have pictured.
Eddie Redmayne
I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.
Tom Brady
I don’t think people should be afraid of portraying people with accents, especially Asian accents.
Nico Santos
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city ha

I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don’t know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
Josephine de La Baume
I’m just being P.J., that’s the number one thing, I’m just being me. Like I’m not portraying something or acting or putting on something that I wouldn’t put on every day in my life or doing anything that I wouldn’t already be doing.
P. J. Tucker
The older I’ve gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
Ed Asner
I like being me and portraying myself in a certain way that makes me feel comfortable and confident.
Rhea Ripley
When you’re portraying a tough situation, you have to show some of the things in there.
Juan Antonio Bayona
I was doing well for myself and wanted to play different roles and not just be happy portraying glamorous characters.
Payal Rohatgi
Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.
Kim Cattrall
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 have no regrets, man. It’s just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he’ll bring me through this.
Ike Turner
More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn’t know that from our literature. I’m trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
I don’t want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I’m just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.
Debi Mazar
In portraying Jang Han-seok, I tried to draw upon certain aspects of myself and emphasize expressions of evil from deep within.
Ok Taec-yeon
Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what’s going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
Kajal Aggarwal
On ‘Ghost In The Shell,’ I’m looking forward more to working with Scarlett Johannson and Rupert Sanders than portraying a lead!
Pilou Asbaek
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it’s also necessary and important.
Domhnall Gleeson
I love portraying different characters.
Alexa Bliss
You are always invested in a film, but there is always a different feeling you get when you are portraying a character that is based on real life and you are re-telling events that actually took place.
Martin Henderson
‘Top Boy,’ for some people, was very controversial because it seemed to be portraying black people in a certain light that they thought to be stereotypical. However, what I would say is that the writer went and lived in Hackney in East London for a long time and did his research really well.
Clare-Hope Ashitey
It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.
Andy Serkis
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 is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura
As an actor, you are used to portraying other characters. You can pick up any mannerism or body language that suits the character. But to be yourself and not look pretentious is a difficult thing to do.
Joy Mathew
My emotions kind of shine through my face, so whatever I’m thinking is what I’m portraying as well.
Laurie Hernandez
Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.
S.E. Cupp