Resemblance Quotes

I`m always described as "cocksure" or "with a swagger", and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to understand that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I listened to a lot of records. I smoked quite a few cigarettes and that - the smoking - stayed with me unfortunately! And I copied his voice in much the same way as I would learn an accent. With a lot of work, I got it. I found Jim`s voice. Whenever people see me singing, it`s really me singing. It`s live. Oliver (Oliver Stone) was counting a lot on the spontaneity and the authenticity, especially in the concert scenes. Everything was prerecorded just in case but I ended up performing it all live. It is all a thing of imagination and one can have the tendency to underestimate it. Physically, I enjoyed myself a lot when I had to gain weight to incarnate Jim Morrison at the end of his life. When he is in a stupor, intoxicated by alcohol and drugs, he resembles Karl Marx. The make-up artists took Polaroids and showed them to the Doors guitarist and to Alain Ronay to get their approval. They were amazed by the resemblance and that helped me a lot. - On becoming Jim Morrison for The Doors (1991).

I don`t think, personally, I`m much like any character I ever played, including `John Malkovich` (in Being John Malkovich"). I don`t really see the resemblance at all. It`s more a frequency you transmit than something that you fundamentally are."

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn`t like. It has no resemblance to democracy.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Savvy observers occasionally note television`s resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father`s visits to the region. He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation`s money with no supervision.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another`s resemblance to ourselves.

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.

Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike