Quotes of Portrayal - somelinesforyou

“ Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ”

- Confucius

“ There is no self-portrait of me. ”

- Gustav Klimt

“ And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. ”

- Anthony Quinn

“ I love modeling. ”

- Brooke Burke

“ For 15 years, I've been playing the same character - which is myself - and I'm bored with 'myself'. ”

- Elle MacPherson

“ I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid. ”

- Dominic Monaghan

“ I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun. ”

- Gabriel Byrne

“ I did rehab and tried to get better the best that I could. I wasn't playing at 100 percent? preparation or health? and I didn't want to come back until I knew I could do that. ”

- Venus Williams

“ The heroism of the role,... was playing up the vulnerability of the role, and that was all Jimmy. ”

- James Caan

“ Each set my quality picked up, and in the fourth set we were both playing well. ”

- Andre Agassi

“ The significant role that the EU is playing in European and global policy is pushing us toward closer cooperation. ”

- Vladimir Putin

“ The process needs low cost and quality, and Toyota is a role model example of how to use cost and quality to get on the playing field. ”

- Jim Matheson

“ I got hurt playing football. ”

- Mark Wahlberg

“ Everybody's playing at the same pace right now. We're looking for each other and not complaining about who's getting the ball. Everybody's filling their role. ”

- James White

“ Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ Advertising is a bit like playing make-believe. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles. ”

- James Baker

“ Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take. ”

- Kathy Ireland

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

- Gene Hackman

“ History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ There were a lot of people that contributed to my success as a person as well as a player. Without those people, I wouldn't be sitting in the position that I'm sitting in today. I think that it's extremely important for people to realize all of the things that other people do for them. ”

- Alonzo Mourning

“ I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ I think it's just when you're playing the character, just kind of into your character, you're kind of thinking and feeling what she's thinking and feeling at the time,... So if she's doing that, you're doing that. ”

- Dakota Fanning

“ 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… ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”

- Herbert Clark Hoover
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