The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.
Among so many things, ‘Time Passes’ has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
At a certain period in time, the fashion industry was portraying this image of a totally unrealistic woman, women who are not allowed to be themselves.
The movies I make, I never see them as accurately portraying a life, but more like fables.
You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It’s one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.
I’m portraying out characters, I’m portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.
I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself – to revisit someone’s past, whether you’re portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.
I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they’ll die horribly in some way someday, and that they’ll face horrible things along the way, I don’t know – I think that’s a beautiful thing. It’s a wonderful thing.
The deaf culture is portrayed very accurately on ‘Switched at Birth’ because the writers did the opposite of the norm. They did their homework before portraying anything on television.
It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you’re portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.
I’d my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.
When I was a kid, all the walls in my room were papered with posters portraying Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I think working with Van Damme was a great experiment. It was awesome!
As FIFA leaked information to the media, portraying me as an unethical person, I felt I was left naked, helpless to defend myself, as they repeatedly cut me with a sharp knife.
Actors like me endeavour to look for great roles and portraying them to the best of our ability. At times, it’s noticed; at times, it’s not.
As much as I love to portray a character, I also love portraying a more natural, elegant persona – particularly when I get to enjoy the sunshine in comfy, elegant clothes.
The challenge is always in portraying characters who’ve led a very different life from your’s as you get to work on the character.
When success comes, it changes everything, so I’m interested in portraying what that’s like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.
As authors, most – most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it’s like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
It’s wonderful that we’re portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.
Acting is about portraying something… that dedication or learning the script of it is really important in really getting to know a topic.
When illiberal feminists aren’t delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way that they are reduced to nonhuman objects.
How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I’m portraying in the film or play.
I’m not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Actresses cannot have any inhibitions while portraying bold characters. It is something that we learn on the first page of the book on acting.
The fact that ‘Small Island’ is ‘period’ is amazing for me because it’s something that I’ve never been involved with before. Also, half my family is Jamaican and this story is essentially a story about Jamaican people, and it’s portraying a part of history that I was not that familiar with myself.
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication – portraying a story, event, or emotion – is a full-body experience.
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I’m portraying.
I think it’s important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It’s not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn’t matter as long as the story is beautiful.
I’ve been involved in the deaf community for years, and my friends in the community that are actors or performers get very frustrated when they see hearing people portraying a deaf role.
It’s rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you’re not just portraying endless trauma on film.
I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that’s happened in the strip has happened to me.
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 to someplace else.
If you write a lovely story about India, you’re criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you’re seen as portraying it in a negative light – it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
I love portraying the totally indifferent person.
I don’t want to fall into any single category. I don’t want to be known for portraying drunks or heavies or saints.
Our films are now portraying the real woman of today, and thankfully, female characters are pretty close to reality. This is a welcome change, and I think it is a reflection of our society.
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 that only speaks in questions. ‘Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?’
For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don’t necessarily look like themselves. And yet you’ve still got the heart and soul of the performance.
Every time I do something, I think, ‘Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?’
Portraying a real-life character can be quiet challenging.
Most important, in portraying gay people… it’s just like portraying anybody else.
I don’t get fazed by things easily. I don’t really care about much; I’m just not interested in a lot. I’m just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I’m portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.
Obviously, portraying a mermaid is a very different kind of work, especially when compared to any other character you’d probably get asked to play in a show.
It’s not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they’re not connecting with the characters they are portraying.
If I look at the message I’m portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.
I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it’s from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it’s not needed.
I’m very particular who I work with. I’m not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I’m interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
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