Portraying Quotes

When Run DMC and all that starting poppin off, thats when we really took Hip-Hop to another level, as far as in our neighborhood. Youd have brothers out there basically just portraying themselves like the MCs that was out around that time. - Raekwon

When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly. - James Spader

We maintain that we can do a better job of accurately portraying what's going on in a courtroom if we can use the best tools available to us. - Steve Scott

To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the message I'm portraying to people that watch me on TV is positive and it shows that they can do things that are different besides catching a football, hitting a baseball or shooting a basketball. I'm just showing them that stepping outside the bubble is OK and they can be successful at it. - Shani Davis

They're friends and they're professionals. Whatever is written portraying them poorly, I think it's just people trying to gossip and write something just to write something. Everybody's great and everybody loves the show. - Kevin Weisman

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. - Dawn Ostroff

These kids are highly ambitious and I hope that's what we're coming out of schools like. There are shows out there that are portraying kids as these really messed up, conflicted young people and hopefully we're not all like that. - Kate Bell

There's a myth people have about New Orleans that make them fear to come, just like what happened in New York after 9/11. Everyone thinks the city is under water - when it's not - just like the media kept portraying the scene of NYC as that piece of skeleton steel rising out of the pit of the World Trade Center, when the simple message is that New Orleans, just like New York City, is ready, willing, and anxious for tourists to come back. - Tim Zagat