In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

- Lady Gaga

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

- Regina King

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

- Richard Madden

I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.

- Omar Dorsey

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

- Max Cannon

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

- Mia Wasikowska

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

- Max von Sydow

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

- Meryl Streep

I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.

- LL Cool J

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

- Ashley Wagner

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

- John Boyega

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

- Joshua Bell

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

- J. K. Simmons

I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper.

- Heather Graham Pozzessere

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

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

- Gillian Gilbert

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.

- Grace Jones

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

- Daniel Sharman

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.

- Anita Desai