Portray Quotes

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Like
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?

  

  Jules Verne
  • Horror
  • Describe
  • Portray

• When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Lives
  • Peoples
  • Clowns

• I'm not a - I'm beautiful, but I'm not working because I'm drop-dead gorgeous with a fantastic body. I think I continue to work because I'm good at my craft. I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

  

  Adina Porter
  • Good
  • Work
  • Author

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

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Woman
  • Intelligent
  • Rare

• I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

  

  Adina Porter
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Author

• I want to try and portray characters that are in real life, that you see day-to-day. If I were to just stay in my little village in Wales, I would have gotten a very small taste of a very big plate.

  

  Joshua Sasse
  • Real
  • Characters
  • Portray

• To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Challenge
  • Offers
  • Portray

• The nature of men and women - their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

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

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Marine
  • Says
  • Flattering

• I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Portray

• Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

  

  Akira Yoshizawa
  • Desires
  • Expressions
  • Portray

• It is nothing short of deception and lies to portray this deal as strengthening the union (between Northern Ireland and Britain), ... complete and total sellout of our province.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Short
  • Deception
  • Portray

• I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.

  

  Brooklyn Sudano
  • Character
  • Pieces
  • Portray

• I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.

  

  Jon Huertas
  • Goal
  • Veterans
  • Portray

• Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Realizing

• You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Humanity
  • Respond
  • Human Condition

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

  

  Sylvia Kristel
  • Serenity
  • Elegance
  • Portray

• The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards - I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox - but they're going to portray - they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as the young and dynamic and optimistic and all this. There's going to be this glow about them this summer, that is going to be worth - collective glow, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Win
  • Media
  • Establishment