Portraying Quotes - Page 5

• I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

  Kyra Sedgwick

  Respect, Real, Character

  "Kyra Sedgwick Talks The Woodsman". movieweb.com. December 23, 2004.

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• Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

  Mpho Koaho

  Acting, Emotion, Vulnerable

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• You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually existed. There's so much more to draw on and your research as an actor becomes much easier than if it's some fiction that you're trying to create a world around and background and history.

  Jamie Dornan

  Nice, Character, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hypocrite, Men, Thinking

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I like to think there's still right and wrong. We blur that a lot. When we celebrate misdeeds instead of portraying them as missteps, we've lost our way a little bit.

  Mark Schwahn

  Thinking, Littles, Way

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• I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Character, Thinking

  Source: my.xfinity.com

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• I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it... And I do not believe that the laws that they propose we pass will do anything about it - except, they will destroy our economy.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Law, Climate

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• I want to be someone who is known for portraying themselves honestly. I try to avoid aggrandizing things I've done.

  Liz Prince

  Trying, Done, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the stage marks the departure from truly living your part and the beginning of exaggerated false acting. Therefore, no matter how much you act, how many parts you take, you should never allow yourself any exception to the rule of using your own feelings. To break that rule is the equivalent of killing the person you are portraying, because you deprive him of a palpitating, living, human soul, which is the real source of life for a part.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Artist, Exception To The Rule

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• Almost 400 years ago, Shakespeare was portraying adolescents in a very similar light to the light that we portray them in today - but today we try to understand their behavior in terms of the underlying changes that are going on in their brain.

  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

  Light, Years, Brain

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• The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Drawing, People, First Impression

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• Sometimes you have the trends that's not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don't really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It's really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Artist, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

  Mark Helprin

  Hate, Real, Hero

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• The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Greek, Theatre

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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