#image

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner. ↗

— Jude Law

#always #angry #beauty #directors #give

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting. ↗

— Ang Lee

#beyond #careers #commercially #crowd #economically

I think that every minority in the United States of America knows everything about the dominant culture. From the time you can think, you are bombarded with images from TV, film, magazines, newspapers. ↗

— Spike Lee

#america #bombarded #culture #dominant #every

People of color have a constant frustration of not being represented, or being misrepresented, and these images go around the world. ↗

— Spike Lee

#being #color #constant #frustration #go

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#image #literally #may #point #point of view

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#create #created #god #his #image

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#bombarded #carry #day #deepen #fend

So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is out there. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#creative #creative people #dealing #down #go

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. ↗

— Lance Loud

#believe #culture #gauge #gay #homophobic