Quotes About Masking

We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, 100 things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

Friends and family were convinced I was functioning just fine because I was efficient, productive and successful - who wouldn't be working twenty hour days? I had everybody fooled with my illness.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out.

So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts. Do

tengo mucha experiencia en no demostrar mis sentimientos, y eso es lo que hago.

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It's the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

The smile on my face is only there to mask what I'm feeling inside.

Mira a Connor, que no parece preocuparse por dónde se sienta. No lo parece. Esa es la palabra clave con Connor. Se le da extremadamente bien ocultar lo que pasa en ese espacio desconcertante que va de una oreja suya a la otra.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

Si algo tienen en común los psicópatas es una habilidad consumada para hacerse pasar por gente normal y corriente, mientras detrás de la fachada, de ese disfraz brutal y brillante, late el corazón refrigerado de un predador implacable y glacial.

People's lives can look so good on the outside and be so much dark shadow on the inside.

Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details.

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!

The surface can hide a great deal of turmoil.