Self-Portrayal Quotes

I have talent at playing myself. I don't have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It's more than fun; it's the best job on Earth.

I don't try to portray some lifestyle that I'm not living.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

It is difficult to know oneself, but it isn't easy to paint oneself either.

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

When it comes to how I portray myself online, I'm trying to be as real as I can and show people every side of what I do and not just put up selfies online of me in full done-up make up and stuff.

I've never really been a character on TV. I think, if possible, you want to portray yourself. If you're in a situation where you're supposed to react, you need to react.

It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music.

It is little silly to be a caricature of something of which you know very little, and which means very little to you, but to be your own caricature — that is the true carnival!

Madame Bovary is myself.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

Painters who do self-portraits are engaging in a form of narcissism. But it doesn't work like that in movies. A truly narcissistic person wouldn't go into filmmaking because it's just too tiring.

One of the reasons I paint black people is because I am a black person.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That's how I was portraying myself.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

On every show that I have been on, I have played myself.

It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.

Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That's just who I am.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.