#portray

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#aim #any #consider #every #honest

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#brave #call #country #false #free

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #homosexual #i #interested #lives

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one. ↗

— Brian Eno

#am #any #being #i #i am

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#agree #always #attorney #because #character

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women. ↗

— Warren Farrell

#date #exaggerated #feminists #had #i

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ↗

— John Cleese

#being #bland #businessman #comes #cruel

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#always #audience #being #challenge #character