A man obsessed with
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it. Erland Josephson
Portraying
As an actor, and
As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there’s so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person. Emmy Rossum
Making \\’Birdsong,\\’ on the
Making ‘Birdsong,’ on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that’s an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you’re portraying that character that he’s imagined and millions of readers have pictured. Eddie Redmayne
The older I\’ve gotten,
The older I’ve gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth. Ed Asner
Books that teach us
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche
I care about people.
I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I’m portraying. Forest Whitaker
Films portraying successful black
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me. Drake
I started out as
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. Dorothy Malone
Would movie moguls release
Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims … Read more
Portraying as human the
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it’s also necessary and important. Domhnall Gleeson