Quotes About Mask

But then I knew better than anyone how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was really inside.

Religion was the robe of sanctity worn to mask the naked pursuit of power.

He was a bad courtier and painted an ambiguous picture entitled La Menzogna or Falsehood, to show what he felt about the need for dissimulation to achieve success; a man holds up a mask to indicate to his companion that he must adopt it if he wants to make progress at court... ... The clear message was that Rosa was not prepared to demean himself in that way.

To miniaturize is also to conceal.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.

It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Dr. Hervey Cleckley wrote in The Mask of Sanity

We'd considered wearing uniform but Lesley said, what with her mask and everything, she'd look like a plastic cop monster from Doctor Who. I managed to restrain myself from telling her their real name.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Vice knows that she's ugly, so she puts on a mask.

I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.

I decided that every year on my birthday, I'm going to release a new clown mask.

The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.

Spider-Man had Peter Parker.

Nelson Chase's dull face hung in the middle distance like a jack-a-lantern.

The problem of pretending to be alive.

and won out of her a stiff unused smile.

because the beautiful way he speaks in public is just another cloak he wears to hide what lies beneath his skin

It's easy to forget that inside her cool and placid exterior is a human being. Not nice to think, I