Top 220 Portray Quotes

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I’d rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

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

I would want the audience to simply see the character I portray in each movie in its true essence because I feel acting is all about truthfully portraying the character.

I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.

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.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I’m asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms.

I’m very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it’s one of the great things about making movies is it’s a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character’s costume and what that might tell about your character.

I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

To me what’s most important when I’m signing a project is the character that I’m going to portray and whether it gives the opportunity to show different facets of my craft.

I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven’t had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.

Actors are here to perform various kind of roles and we represent some another character. You can’t judge us by what we portray on screen.

It seems like there’s a lot of people who just do not understand satire. They think it’s weird. There’s people who just don’t understand you portray something or just explore a character, it means you’re condoning it, saying this is the way to live.

I think, as an actress, whether you want to or not, whether you’re ready for it or not, people are going to look at what you’re doing, and they are going to look up to you, and it’s not even really about you; it’s who you portray on the screen.

They’re pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren’t willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.

I’m often asked how I portray the roles I play so convincingly and express so much through my eyes. Quite frankly, I don’t know how to explain that. I guess it’s about who I’m as a person; I radiate it through my eyes.

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

It still baffles my brain that I actually get to portray a character on American television that’s this gay, femme-y Filipino guy.

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.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It’s a more subtle kind of challenge.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

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 beat myself up the whole time because I’m striving for something I’ll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it’s not really me. I’m never satisfied, and I’m never content. It means I’m a bit of a mess some of the time.

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

If the crew is hit by the situation that we’re trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.

To portray something that you’re really not, it’s like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It’s totally acceptable.

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.

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.

For me, I’ve always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn’t necessarily mean being strong all the time.

It’s not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that’s what we portray, and I think that’s what we do.

I do love editorials – you’re free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.

I never looked at it like I’m one of the most respected, but I always tried to stay to who I was. The way that I am in my music is the way that I am. I’m just not tryna portray nobody but Brad, period!

I think there will be times where I need to be more serious, and I’ll show that. I’ll show an intensity that I think a lot of people can’t really show or portray.

It was easy for the Democrats to attack the wealthy fat cats of Wall Street, the elite, and the privileged people – to portray them as a profiteer of the system, which to some extent, they are. Not because they wanted to, but because Mr. Bernanke enabled them to be profiteers.

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

In ‘Poster Boys,’ I played a character that no one would have thought that I could portray. The film helped me focus on work, and I worked so hard on it that even though it didn’t do well, I didn’t let it bring me down.

Freestyling helps me portray the emotion that I’m feeling right there instead of writing it at home and having to add to it.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

I think every time there’s a show like ‘Modern Family’ or ‘Will & Grace’ that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door.

There’s a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I’ve said this before: Hollywood’s not a place where you’re rewarded for growing up.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.

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.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

The open street, like the open sea, is an inviting thing to the mind of man. It is one of the few places where all may meet as equals under sun or rain; but only a John Bunyan could adequately portray the danger of the cities with their pitfalls for the young unguarded feet.

It’s a misconception that all singers need to portray a messed up, dirty look to prove their identity.

I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn’t portray them as idiots.

It is difficult to portray grey characters because there is a very thin line between being nasty and slightly negative.

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It’s because comedy is very hard to portray.

If you’re trying to portray that I take massive business decisions in pubs and bars, then that is total crap. It is not the norm, otherwise I’d have to live in a pub because I take business decisions all day, every day.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

One doesn’t necessarily have to be grey-haired to portray a mother.

It is inappropriate to portray the central contribution to the Disaster Relief Fund as help for COVID-19 prevention.

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don’t do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you’re 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don’t portray anything that says ‘I’m too cool and I don’t care.’

The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don’t drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

When you’re playing jazz, you have to somehow overcome that feeling of being intimidated because your aim is to portray that freedom in what you’re playing.

I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.

There is no particular character that I wish to portray. I just want to push myself to do justice to whichever role I am offered.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.

Asian men are sexy, confident, and passionate – and three-dimensional. We want the opportunity to portray roles that reflect who we are in real life.

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

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five’s each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That’s why it’s fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen.

I don’t try to portray some lifestyle that I’m not living.

Irrespective of my looks and age, they’ll like me if I portray my character well.

It’s quite a layered character that I portray in ‘Jalebi’ and I needed to deviate and cut-off completely from the world to get into a different zone as a character. I’m really glad it proved beneficial and worked to my advantage.

I don’t know what story y’all trying to get out of me. I don’t know what image y’all trying to portray of me. But it don’t matter what y’all think, what y’all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face – my family that I love, that’s all that really matter to me.

To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

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?

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.

Wherever I go, I just try to show normal life. If the work helps to dispel stereotypes, it’s because I seek not to portray the extremities of a place, but the vast majority of people who are quite normal and are having normal life experiences.

I think something that’s very relevant in real life and that they don’t portray enough on TV is that when you think ‘Christian,’ you think ‘goody two shoes’ – they have to look a certain way and do certain things – and it’s just not true.

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.

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.

With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It’s that character, with all those principles and understanding… that’s who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That’s what we believe Superman is.

I don’t have an image that I’m trying to, like, portray. I’m just being me.

Society doesn’t portray transsexual people in a very positive light.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they’re from.

When I first started acting, I had all these ideals about the kinds of roles I wanted to play, but the reality is that when you do television – and I do a lot of television – you get cast for qualities that you have as a person. So I look for qualities that I like to portray.

Every actor, has a dream role, I would like to admit Kamini Mathur is my dream role and I am so happy to portray this character.

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn’t consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that’s not stereotypical, even if I’m playing a stereotypical role.

Wrestling doesn’t know what it is. I feel that wrestling has an identity crisis and what I mean by that is, we’re almost meant to portray these characters 24 hours a day, but that’s kind of a ridiculous, stupid thing.

Modeling is a lonely business… You don’t speak. You don’t really portray anything but an image… the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I will be playing the role of Pullela Gopichand in the PV Sindhu biopic. It’s an honor to be able to portray him on screen.

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that’s needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that all they can do is break into song.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren’t able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don’t get the full life and background of that character.

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.

When I thought of the word ‘Himmatwala,’ I couldn’t think of anyone other that Ajay Devgn who could do justice to the role. He is a great actor and can portray emotions, anger and action effectively.

I do not want to work to stay busy. I want to feel excited and challenged with each character that I portray on-screen.

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 have been lucky enough to portray many, many characters.

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.

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.

I have always chosen to portray roles which inspired me and mostly that I enjoy it in the first place.

It’s almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

If it is a fantasy fiction, and you want to portray a story of a vampire, you have to keep the essence of the story same. But if you have to have five episodes a week, where do we get so much content from?

I think it’s a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can’t afford those treatments, then she’s going to say, ‘I’m 53 and I don’t look like that,’ and start thinking she’s ugly or inadequate.

I wouldn’t mind meeting some of the people I’ve attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I’d have to give them an Altoid.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Even though the ‘Shooter’ character on TV is so close to the real-life me, I’m still playing with ways to creatively portray that character.

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?

I think people have a different image of me because, you know, they portray me with the idea that models are stupid and dumb; like, ‘She can just be a model because she can just be a model – she’s dumb and she can’t do anything else.’

Personally and politically, I’m extremely conservative for who I am, but I’m also very careful in my tone. I don’t believe just because you’re a conservative that you’re angry. I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

For ‘Astitva,’ I needed actors who were good and committed and could portray the character’s growth over a period of time – from 21 to 47 years.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

A lot of people say television holds up a mirror to life, and that’s why you see all the drug busts and the killings and the seamier side of life. I personally take the view that it’s not sufficient to portray only negative role models. It’s not enough to say ‘no’ to drugs. What do you say ‘yes’ to?

The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

The traditional villain has died a natural death. Today even a hero can portray a negative character. There are no lines drawn. The scope for actors like me has condensed.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

On a film set, everything’s done for you. You get to a stage where you can’t even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we’re trying to portray the human condition, but we’re often not living in reality.

I’ve been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

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

It would be impossible to find an actor to portray Om Puri, so I wouldn’t even attempt it.

Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat.

Big business increasingly likes to portray itself as socially concerned, adopting the style of civic action through ‘campaigns’ of varying degrees of cynicism.

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

It’s a rare opportunity to play a character that is not only a lot of fun to portray, but it’s also rare to play someone that teaches you something.

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it’s important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it’s important.

In my movies, I portray this ‘Everyman’ persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

I have a strong personality – I know who I’m outside my work, and I’m nothing like the characters I portray.

I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.

I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.

‘Hamlet’ is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I’d like to be involved in.

I hate when they portray women as just sex symbols in short skirts, running around playing dumb. I refuse to watch such films or be in such films.

I don’t like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn’t want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you’ve got to turn out the lights from time to time.

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

Almost every Marine I’ve met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

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.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I’m trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

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.

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.

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.

When I came up with the Alexa Bliss character, I wanted to be the girl that everyone knew. There was always that girl in high school who was mean to everybody. She was mean and rude, but everyone still voted for her to be homecoming queen. That girl. And I wanted to portray that girl.

It’s an amazing role for any actor, so deep and challenging. And Anne Frank was such an amazing person, I feel honored to portray her.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don’t know how people portray that, or ‘Climax,’ for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

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.

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.

I always thought it’d be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn’t the type to do acting school or theater. I didn’t have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn’t something that I was going to try and pursue.

I really love young Tom Hanks. He’s just one of my favorites. He’s a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray ‘normal’ people.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I wish I were as tough and strong as the women that I’m lucky enough to portray.

As a newcomer to America who learned to ‘speak American’ by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture – the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

One of the most exciting parts of the Nexus and ‘Bad News’ Barrett eras were I had a lot of influence in the character and I had a lot of influence in how I was going to portray myself.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn’t been written about much.

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it’s a little edgy for Saturday night.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I’m trying to portray.

The beauty of Toronto is that it has not been shot a lot in movies, for itself at least. I mean, most of the time, Toronto is shot to portray something else.

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

Having the name ‘Bloomberg’ doesn’t help me in any way… and it really is a disadvantage and takes away from the image I’m trying to portray.

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a ‘blue chip’ Irish banking sector.

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.

The big, radical thing that I’m trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings.

I am an actor, and I would like to reinvent myself through every character that I portray.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.

Everybody wants to portray the bad boy, the Johnny Manziel stuff, but I love the game of football. There’s no doubt about that.

It’s said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black and white. If this is so, I suspect it’s because such films portray an America that no longer exists.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

Immigrant characters now are getting much more well-rounded, and they have personalities, which is important because we do need to portray immigrants in a humanizing way.

Most of the comedy characters I played have been extensions of my own personality and very similar to Mike Channel. It’s a weird eclectic mixture of your genuine character and the character you portray.

Comedy films never die, all they need is a good script instead of merely relying on humour. That said, I would love to portray more characters like the one I play in ‘Perariyathavar.’

You can pick and choose how to portray yourself.

As an actor, I am open to all possible characters that I can portray.

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

It’s just crazy the way people portray me.

What we’re supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don’t really have an understanding of the world outside.

Some of the most hard-working, generous people I’ve met in my whole life didn’t really want to vote for him but did. My calling is to step onto the other side and humanise and portray the struggles of many Trump voters.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That’s still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

As a young artist in New York, I thought about postwar Japan – the consumer culture and the loose, deboned feeling prevalent in the character and animation culture. Mixing all those up in order to portray Japanese culture and society was my work.

Anything that exists on the human palette is, from my point of view, fair game for artists to portray. You don’t have to go see it if you don’t want to, so don’t go.

My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system. Most of the educational material I’ve seen on the Native American does not portray an actual picture.

They portray me as a hick just because I enjoy some of the things people in Oklahoma like. I think people expect me to come out wearing my boots and spurs.

To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

I have done and want to do roles that portray women in a strong light and inspire those women who think they are weak and helpless.

Much of social media can be seen as the ‘News of me.’ It’s not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.

I am a very blessed actor because I have always got the chance to portray various characters.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks – slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Instagram is just something I like to do. I feel it’s the best way to portray who you are.

I think most models fear growing old, but from a tender age I had always chosen to play someone grown up. I am slowly but surely catching up with the people that I have spent the last decade and a half trying to portray.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them – the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well – help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

It’s so fun because the Carmella you see on ‘SmackDown Live’ is so different to me. It’s great to be able to portray this character in a way that I never would in real life.

I wanted to portray Joon-woo as someone who breaks out into a song and dance in that situation, an unpredictable villain who doesn’t fit into the mold of a serious and scary psychopath.

I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you’re always you.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor’s cap.

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.

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

The great quality of the ‘Three Kingdoms’ is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

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

To portray a real-life character is the toughest job for an actor because one never knows which direction to flow.

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 don’t see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

How long will we show birds and bees in love scenes? The world has moved on and we should portray intimate scenes realistically.

I’m very careful about how I portray violence in my films. I do believe that violence, especially violent video games, are not a good thing for young kids.

I want to portray myself as myself.

I would like to portray something that would challenge the actor in me.

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck by me because it speaks of the hypocritical nature of the reality. We are something more inside and I want to portray the pluralities in thought.

As actors when we have to emote, we internalise things, find moments that hurt us and portray them.

‘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.

Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character in the film is a comedy than I can portray it. But, I am not a comedian.

I never got into ‘Star Wars.’ Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all.

I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

There’s racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I’ve never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that’s not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone’s image is as an artist is what they’ve chosen to portray.

I find I work best as a reactor, trying to portray something on a screen musically. If I were a boxer, I’d be a counter-puncher.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it’s more helpful for me.