Philippe Halsman Quotes

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

I try and photograph people as they are. I do not want to hide anything. I want to bring across a personality, a humanity. It is not a case of model A or model B against a white background. I am interested in the person.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

The style is the man himself.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.

Style is character.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.