They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show.
Beautiful women seldom want to act. They are afraid of emotion and they do not try to extract anything from a character that they are portraying, because in expressing emotion they may encourage crow's feet and laughing wrinkles. They avoid anything that will disturb their placidity of countenance, for placidity of countenance insures a smooth skin.
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.
As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen
I never really cared much for Hollywood or movies. But the curiosity for filmmaking, and expanding myself as an actor and my curiosity for people and portraying them, just has grown. And that's from simply being involved in the industry. But it was never a goal of mine as a kid.
I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.
It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.
I'm not saying you need to become a spokesperson for every cause your character goes through, but it's important to absolutely do the best job we can in portraying a disease, and all the crap that goes with it.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.
I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.
I feel like few things are more successful at portraying honest emotionsexperiences. There also just seems to be a certain feelingmood that I respond well to. I feel similarly about the artist Kahimi Karie and the films "An Education" and "Marie Antoinette. " Anything with a strongly and unapologetically feminine point of view I tend to be interested in.
I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.
What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.
I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.
I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.
The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.
