Top 77 Photographed Quotes

It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.

I’ve always liked street lights, and I’ve always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it’s really beautifully photographed, you don’t really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

Before I was a mother, if I’d been photographed in a bikini, I’d have been mortified.

I have my insecurities, and some days you don’t want to be photographed. You notice all of your flaws even if others don’t notice them. Photo shoots also feel very vain because it’s all about you and your looks and your face. I feel I work better on camera.

Taking care of my skin so that it’s healthy and glowing, especially with all the travelling and training, is important and makes me feel presentable. I don’t wear makeup when I compete, and that’s when I’m photographed the most, so I have to make sure it looks good!

One afternoon, on my way to the campus – I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University – a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I’d ever been photographed.

In 1954, Guatemala’s deposed president, the democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, was forced to strip down to his underwear and photographed before being allowed to leave the country.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Listening to Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.

Increasingly, the work I’m doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I’m trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

I’m not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job.

I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don’t mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.

People don’t know what goes on in my private life, so they have to make conjecture from something that is photographed.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that’s just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you’re hot stuff. You’re always working on it.

I don’t like when people seem to put every single thing on and just walk up and down outside waiting to be photographed. I think that’s a bit lame.

From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.

All my life I’ve taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

I have a no-kids policy on my website, meaning I won’t publish paparazzi photos of celebrity children. I’ll only post photos that celebrities themselves share on social media, or if the kids are photographed at a red carpet event.

I learned early on that if I was to get attention, I would have to be charming. Even the models I’ve photographed are often like that. Some of them are not beautiful. But, if you catch them in the right light, they glow.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

I’d photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which made him the perfect subject for me – I realised that rock n’ rollers were the modern equivalent of all the poets I was so enamoured with.

The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.

A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It’s a short letter – all she said was, ‘Hey, since it’s harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.’ I was like, ‘Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!’

I do like some of the perks, like being, recognized, especially if I’ve had my makeup done and I’m going to be photographed and people admire me. Who wouldn’t like that?

There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.

I photographed all kinds of sports – Formula 1, Formula Atlantic. And anybody who knows me knows that, from the day they invented video cameras, I used to lug them around when you had to carry the pack here and the big camera here, plus the diaper bag and a baby and the purse or whatever.

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life’s consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

It’s a strange thing that we’re actors, and we’re always playing a character, and then suddenly we’re at a place like Cannes, and we’re getting photographed as ourselves, and you’re like, ‘What do you do?’

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

Some actors don’t mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it’s nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I’m very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don’t like the way I look so I don’t like being photographed. I become defensive.

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them.

One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That’s not cooking; that’s putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I’m not saying it was good.

I’ve always photographed beauty, but I’ve never been beautiful myself.

When you are 18, 19, 20, you’re used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

I’m being photographed, worrying about my hair – and yet here I am, I’ve directed a feature film, why do I care about the way I look? Who cares? Does Tim Burton care? Does Joel Coen?

The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man’ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.

I’m a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.

My dad photographed a lot of beautiful dancers. My mom was a dancer.

Motherhood takes vanity completely out of the picture. Comfort is the key. When you are coming out of a plane after a 9-hour flight with drool all over your clothes, the last thing you are worried about is being photographed. You just want to take your kid home.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

There’s a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

I’ve been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

In ’73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn’t make you feel relaxed… I managed to escape unscathed though, I’m pretty good at that.

It doesn’t matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It’s what people relate to. If you don’t believe the characters, it doesn’t work.