(69 quotes found)
“The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.”
D.H. Lawrence
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
John Cleese
“History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes”
Voltaire
“If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being”
Gene Hackman
“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.”
Yusuf Islam
“I want to have something that's different to the way I've been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie - she acts tough but is still sexy.”
Christina Aguilera
“It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer. There are people who know who I really am, and that's good enough for me.”
Jennifer Lopez
“They didn't portray comic characters, they were comic characters.”
Stanley Green
“Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying, while those that show the body in pleasure act like poison”
Walter Kendrick
“Men are portrayed as buffoons these days and I was trying not to do that, but men are the ultimate mystery to me.”
Carol Shields
