Misleading Portrayal Quotes

Who doesn't have a friend who worships her lover with a passion that seems baffling to everyone that knows them? Before you met him for the first time, she'd talked him up like he was a cross between Indiana Jones, Barack Obama and The Doctor. When you finally meet him, he's a quiet little thing who looks like a baked bean in glasses, and actually says 'harumph' as spelt.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.

People come to L.A. and they expect to see a ghetto like the projects, but that's not the way it's set up. Inglewood, in particular, is the furthest thing from a ghetto. It's a middle-class community, but it's gotten a bad rap over the years... because of 'Grand Canyon' and 'Pulp Fiction' and other films.

What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.

Sometimes in the mainstream movies, a character who is from the South is portrayed by a person who looks like a South Indian but speaks in fake accent.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.

The limited fictions used to sell the lives of public figures often form a cloudy chiaroscuro that covers their true humanity.

I can't be happy if I want to because the media won't let me be. They keep propagating a tacky image of mine. They even make my charity work look like a publicity stunt.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.