Portrayal Quotes

• Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

  Gerald McRaney

  Thinking, People, Drug

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• If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

  Gene Hackman

  Stars, Looks, Lost

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• All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Men, Sometimes

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• My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

  Ron Moody

  Comedy

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• In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career.

  Edward Albert

  Country, Careers, Age

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Home, Land

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.153, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

  George Dzundza

  People, Embarrassed, Concern

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• From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Eye, Animal

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• The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.

  Gerald McRaney

  Alcohol, Drug, Abuse

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• I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.

  Cat Stevens

  Media, Issues, Islam

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies directed by women is what real women are about. I don't think that men see things wrong and women right, just that we do see things differently.

  Jane Campion

  Movie, Real, Women

  Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

  Max Weber

  Bears, Artistic, Type

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• People learn a lot about what they think they know about other people from what they see in the media. If they see certain types of images reproduced over and over again for other groups that limit them to narrow types of roles and portrayals, they start to take those prejudices into their interactions with those people in real society, and that creates all kinds of discriminatory problems.

  Darnell M. Hunt

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that felt really big and important.

  Krysten Ritter

  Stress, Important, Disorder

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• I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

  Matthew Lewis

  Teacher, School, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

  Michael Morell

  Zero, Dark, Want

  www.cia.gov. December 21, 2012.

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• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Hollywood, Valleys

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• In my head, thought, I would love to do an interview where it's just sort of de-constructed - the talking points of Iraq - sort of the idea of, is this really the conversation we're having about this war? That if we don't defeat Al Qaeda in Iraq, they'll follow us home? That to support the troops means not to question that the surge could work. That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Mean, Home

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Iraq, Media

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• There's a plethora of wonderful documentaries. I made a point of not looking at anyone else's portrayal of Henry because I think it would have been too confusing - so I've got a lot of films to look forward to.

  Eric Bana

  Thinking, Confusing, Documentaries

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You had blacks and whites coming together and sacrificing, organizing and mobilizing the world. That's the first time we've had collective action put at the center of any kind of portrayal of Martin King on the screen.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Sacrifice, Humanity

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• One thing I definitely experienced up here (New York), that maybe I have to sort of cop to feeling defensive about, is since the election, people in my cohort, who are sensitive to portrayals of people in the movie as classist, have had no problem coming up with those sorts of [middle-American] stereotypes about a phantom real person they can blame for re-electing George Bush.

  Philip Morrison

  New York, Real, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Desire, Repression, Exaggerated

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