Unflattering Portrayal Quotes

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they don't tell the truth!

Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.

You have to remember that reality shows capture your worst moments.