Top 131 Portrayed Quotes

I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.

I have done ‘Sports Illustrated,’ but I don’t regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way – as an athlete.

‘Star Trek’ still – I’m kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, ‘if only’.

King Edward VIII was forced to abdicate because he was determined to marry a divorced woman. As a result of that decision, the Queen’s father, George VI, was obliged to lead the country through a war that threatened its survival, with all the personal pain portrayed in ‘The King’s Speech.’

The characters I’ve always been drawn to are real and flawed. That’s not how women have always been portrayed.

Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You’re either a feminist or you’re not. You’re a working woman or you’re not. I’m raising two girls, and I say to them, ‘I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful… You can be all of these things.’

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians – and often in no better a light than ‘Amos & Andy.’

We’ve all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.

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.

How I’m portrayed in films has more to do with the filmmaking and what they need in the story than anything else. I’m the same person I’ve always been, I just get used in different ways according to the filmmakers’ needs – which is fine with me; it makes for great films.

I’ve given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on ‘Homeland.’ I love playing her, not just because she’s a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

Prior to being in ‘Carousel,’ I had only seen the movie. So, when I read the script, I felt like it was a lot deeper than the movie portrayed it to be.

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you’re dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there.

For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read ‘The God of Small Things’ would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I’d seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Every time I do something, I think, ‘Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?’

I’ve given every maid I’ve portrayed soul and heart.

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kids being mean and materialistic, and I feel it’s really slim pickin’s out there. There’s a little dribble of a moral tacked on, but the story is not about that.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don’t want to be portrayed.

We’re often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.

‘Girl In A Country Song’ is basically a song about what it’s like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.

A lot of the time, the way it’s portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

I’ve been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don’t recognise that person.

So often gay characters, particular those portrayed in an era where gayness was something of a taboo and a statement about ‘who I am and no one’s going to trample me down,’ are more colourful and interesting – and for an actor, that’s enticing.

For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn’t do to people who thought they knew me.

There are definitely some folks in my hometown who are unhappy with the way I portrayed my hometown… But I think most folks realize I wrote this book not to disparage the hometown but to really try to understand why so many kids who grew up like I did struggled.

Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don’t want to have science being portrayed badly.

The great irony was that, while I was being portrayed as a monster, I was in Khatmandu with my children, doing soup kitchens for Tibetan refugees, using all the money from my records to feed three hundred people a day, and working with monks connected to the Sammye Ling Buddhist centre in Scotland.

As a society, we’re failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true – that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite – a sign of weakness.

There’s been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I’ve seen about four of them. He’s usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who’s got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway’s hassling his mother. But he wasn’t like that.

Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American people can have a leaning to be very conservative.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses – which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character.

It’s rare that you see Latin families being portrayed as intelligent, sophisticated, and powerful entities.

Though it’s frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that – or we wouldn’t still be talking about it in 2009. People of all ages and colors came together in the fields of Max Yasgur’s farm.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

‘Out of Africa,’ Dinesen’s second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen’s love of East Africa – the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can’t really be like that. Because you never know what’s right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

The music video director really wanted to incorporate the imagery of guns into ‘Nega Dola’ because the lyrics are very aggressive. It kind of portrayed a very strong image. So that’s how we connected weapons and the imagery of a dangerous atmosphere.

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

My sister was the glamourous one and her movies portrayed her beauty and glamour. As a person, she has enormous patience and has single-handedly supported my mother and my siblings. I have always admired her loyalty to the family.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I looked up to action heroes such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jean-Claude van Damme because I liked the attitude and determination they portrayed.