Likeness Quotes

January 1999: He was awarded $3m in damages and compensation in a case against "Los Angeles" Magazine, because it had printed a digitally altered image of him in a dress (cf. Tootsie (1982)). In July 2001 a federal appeals court overturned the verdict. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that because the photo appeared in an article, not an advertisement, the use of the actor`s likeness did not constitute "commercial speech" and was entitled to the full protection of the 1st Amendment.

On merchandising for Star Wars: "I signed my likeness away. Every time I look in the mirror, I have to send Lucas a couple of bucks."

I always thought it would be fun to play (Marilyn) Monroe. But who could play her, you know? You can`t do it right out, you can`t do her story without letting yourself for all kind of criticism. Candy Cane is like a lot of women were in the 60s when Monroe was a star and a role model. She comes from a small town, she`s in a bad relationship, but she`s fighting to get out of it, to change, and she enters this fantasy land. She has the bleached blond hair like many women had at that time and she thinks it would be fun to be like Monroe. So she follows the fantasy in her own small way and she finds out, guess what, that glamorous life stinks! She sets herself up to be abused and destroyed like Monroe was. - on playing Candy Cane DuJean in Ruby (1992) and her likeness with Marilyn Monroe

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

We loved it. The kids have uniforms with the likeness of a cat. The cheer is like letting out a mountain lion growl. Unlike the higher leagues that have familiar names like the Yankees or Dodgers, this is unique.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness