Portrays Quotes

He was enormously manipulative, very ambitious and not always truthful. I didn`t want a biography that worships the title character. I wanted a movie that portrays the truth.

The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any other characters. There are other characters I have played, other than those ones that have been called stereotypes or whatever. So. (His thoughts on the `mobster` characters he portrays in a lot of his movies)

I`m fascinated by each individual story. I`ll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I`ll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where`s your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? And this is what I wanted to know about Tom. How could this have happened? (on real Tom Martinez, the character in which he portrays in the Showtime original movie, Brotherhood of Murder).

I think it`s good that men are being objectified because since forever women have been objectified. We`re flipping the coin because things have been lopsided on TV and film for so long. Another good point to the show is that it portrays men`s sensuality. They`re not just all about sex and only sex.

Seems there`s a big debate going on about whether a new TV commercial for Minute Maid orange juice portrays Popeye and Bluto as gay lovers or just good friends. The commercial shows Popeye and Bluto at the beach and riding a bicycle for two. I don`t think that makes them gay. I think the fact they both find Olive Oyl attractive, that makes them gay. (From "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), June 4, 2001)

The American people deserve honesty, and this budget is dishonest by omission, and dishonest in how it portrays the overall budget projections.