Top 199 Portray Quotes

I would rather portray the hero if it’s a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ and ‘Robin Hood.’

It’s not like I’m advocating that we ban ‘Call of Duty’ or anything silly like that, I’m asking is for companies to look at their hiring practices, to hire more women… and make sure they portray women in their games in a socially responsible way.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not only as fully fleshed-out characters who are integral to the plot, but as characters whose gender identity is just one of many parts that make up the whole person.

A lot of the time, as an actor, you don’t have the freedom to change what your lines are, and they can often be very unnatural or difficult to portray in a real light.

Movies and TV are America’s No. 1 export. So if our No. 1 export is all male, all white, then there’s only one point of view. And I just think it’s really important that as Americans – I’m a new American, but I am an American – that we don’t portray ourselves to the world so one-sided and exclusive.

I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters that are people who have been oppressed in our world.

Initially, women only had to portray married wife roles on TV, but now there are show that are offering other roles to portray for women. Earlier, all drama used to revolve only around married women, which is not the case now. Even the male actors have a good opportunity for better roles now.

To portray an iconic character has been brilliant in itself, and to be able to do that on a show like ‘Once Upon a Time’ enhances that because the show puts a spin on characters and makes them very different and puts core values that are very different that aren’t in the original fairy tales a lot of people relate to.

I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he’s portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in ‘Selma’ is mind-blowing.

People ask me why it is that when I portray the ‘angry young man’ on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it’s just that I can’t help it; it’s in my genes.

I think what’s different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don’t get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it’s done, it’s done. You can’t go back.

If I go to Liverpool, everyone’s really nice to me. But when we do ‘Scousers’ I portray Liverpudlians as a bunch of thieving, unemployed, violent wastrels, which is a really terrible thing to do.

I look at something like ‘Short Term 12,’ and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn’t have known how to portray that if I hadn’t experienced pain myself.

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 portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.

Whether you need to like a character, I don’t think that’s necessary in order to portray him.

As an actor, I am extremely fortunate to portray Milkha Singh on the big screen.

While I don’t know who will eventually be selected, I think Kangana Ranaut can portray me perfectly on screen, I like her as an actress.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in ‘Highway.’

The actor should understand the script and come prepared to play the role. At the same time, they should be flexible enough to take the director’s input and portray his vision.

I don’t want to portray myself as a daredevil. I’m not at all.

It’s just crazy the way people portray me.

For the record, I don’t really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

Acting – you’re taking someone else’s visions and someone else’s inspirations, and it’s up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.

Al-Qa’ida seeks to portray America as an enemy of the world’s Muslims. But President Obama has made it clear that the United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

In ‘Black Coffee’ I am not the celluloid avatar of ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ director any more. How can you portray similar characters in two films?

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

We don’t ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don’t know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.

I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don’t air your dirty laundry to people that aren’t your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don’t sell anything.

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it’s a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.

Our adversaries – our Democratic adversaries – like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts – narrow based, always have some agenda that’s not attractive to the public… That’s easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

I really needed a show like ‘Jane’ when I was growing up, so being able to portray a positive Latina character means a lot to me because I feel like it’s helping me to contribute to someone’s dreams.

I wasn’t a happy teacher, but I also wasn’t an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can’t really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it’s my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it’s six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I love films that show people in a way that’s so real it’s almost unsettling, and that’s what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

The only way to really portray a character and tell a story well is to be flexible internally. And one of the ways we’re blocked as actors is being aware of where our bodies are carrying tension.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The media try to make rank-and-file Americans feel guilty about buying a gun. The enemies of freedom demonize gun buyers and portray us as social lepers. But we know the truth. We know that responsible gun ownership exemplifies what is good and right about America.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn’t mean that you have to cut off your true self.

‘Vikings’ has been so many different challenges, and some of that is, at times, you have to be big and imposing and violent and vicious, and then you have be pulled back and withdrawn and just more layers and more time to portray those layers, too.

I’ve never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you’re in a situation where you’re supposed to react, you need to react.

Shamshera’ is a dream project and I feel blessed to have an opportunity to be a part of it and portray such a different and interesting character.

Words can’t express how humbled I am in being given the privilege to portray Gunnery Sergeant Basilone!

It is very easy to play a sweet girl-next-door but difficult to portray a grey character.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.