Quotes About Concealment

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

I feel like a lot of times when stuff is on my mind, I really don't show it. I know how to hide my emotions.

There are times I'd like to be incognito, be someplace where I might not stand out.

Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

It was really tiring always pretending to be someone else. Not my life, not my real name, nothing.

In the car on my way to premieres and awards shows, I'll sit with tissue paper under my armpits so I don't soil the delicate dress fabric. The whole time, I'm telling myself, 'Please don't sweat, please don't sweat.' I throw the tissues out right before I step out of the car, and nobody ever knows! I just put on a smile and fake it.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

When someone has spent a lifetime trying to survive a death sentence, the last thing you want is your children uncovering what you have been at such pains to conceal.

From my hair to my toes to my nails. Everything's fake. Everything! Even my heart is fake.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

I think that being in the closet is really hard. It takes a toll on your mind. It takes a toll on you. I think it just makes every aspect of your life more difficult.

Words are nothing but clothes.....The body in love has always been clothed by words that try to conceal. You can't suppress or conceal by concealing, he said.

The young] desire not merely to be understood, but to be understood by telepathy; not merely to be permitted to tell their troubles, but to be prevailed on to do so. The more care they take to conceal their feelings, the greater their disillusionment if one fails to discover them.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

At home I'm clean. Like it never happened. Tell them you saw me. Tell them...you saw me.

Anger conceals pain. It also conceals love.

Some things are so horrible they need to be hidden right after they become visible. They are too horrible to be seen except very slowly, or in very small amounts. Or they are too beautiful.

We hide in plain sight, in our bodies.

I thought you said he was your twin?" "Under that hair and beard, he is.