Brandon Lee

All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as an actor, based on trying to downplay or live up to a comparison with somebody else. You just can't do that. You have to do your own work based on your own gut, your own instincts, and your own life.

American Actor

Jessica Biel

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

American Actress

Gerry Harvey

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.

Australian Businessman

Joseph Nye

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

American Educator

Lil Nas X

I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.

American Musician

Maya Moore

Our country comes from a centuries-long culture of dehumanizing black and brown bodies. So what role does racism play? A huge role. You can't downplay how deeply woven and embedded this is in our country.

American Athlete

Helen Fisher

There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

American Scientist

Ha-Joon Chang

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

South Korean Economist

Gerhard Schroder

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

German Statesman

Johny Hendricks

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

Use 'downplay' for conveying a softer or less alarming tone about issues that might be significant.

Understated Tone

'Downplay' often hints the speaker might be intentionally misleading or hiding the full truth.

Potentially Negative

The use of 'downplay' suggests a subjective perspective; what is downplayed may indeed be important.

Subjectivity Involved

 gonna downplay it and a lot of other guys know yeah well wasn't that good I got one but I don't hear about the other ten that were caught there didn't know about so you got to go check it out do you uh do you is there a level of pride in being the one that found the spot is supposed to be in the one door it's there later you're already raised if you're showing up and to chase the bike

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 though it may be more prevalent and disproportionately affect the experiences of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups. To call it a syndrome is to downplay how universal it is. It's not a disease or an abnormality, and it isn’t necessarily tied to depression, anxiety, or self-esteem.

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 but it can certainly absorb all the text and maybe see increased patterns of meaning. Isn't there a chance that, as this broadens out, there could be a different kind of runaway effect? That's where I draw the line, honestly. And the chance exists -- I don't want to downplay it --

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 the fact that newspapers sell when people see something in it they want to read. So there's a large role here played by the media, who want these things to be as spectacular as they possibly can. I mean, what would it take to persuade our culture to downplay it?

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 that even the worst strategies are making a profit. So when we're experiencing success, it's important to take a moment to really ask ourselves how much of it is truly down to us, because our egos love to downplay the luck factor when we're winning.

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 I didn't know about any of this until months after his death. When I talk about his death as a suicide, I'm not trying to downplay the viciousness he showed at the end of his life. I'm trying to understand how his suicidal thinking led to murder.

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 perception a lot of good experiments in this and you can see certain biases that come up again and again I'll give you four we tend to exaggerate spectacular and rare risks and downplay common risks so flying versus driving the unknown is

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 In the words of feminist theorist bell hooks, "Patriarchy has no gender." Women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equity. And we often downplay the importance of intersectionality.

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 I'll give you four. We tend to exaggerate spectacular and rare risks and downplay common risks -- so, flying versus driving. The unknown is perceived to be riskier than the familiar.

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 Listen, I'm worried about our democracy. Nowadays, we have leaders who use division itself as a political tool. They downplay or even encourage, in some cases,