Quotes About Concealment

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Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

All my life I'd been a fighter. I was always ready, too ready, to fight for what I loved, and against what I deplored. In the end, I became the expression of that fight, and my real nature was concealed behind a mask of menace and hostility. The message of my face and my body's movement was, like that of a lot of other hard men, Don't fuck with me. In the end, I became so good at expressing the sentiment that the whole of my life became the message.

There was too much that I didn't understand. There was too much that I wouldn't allow myself to ask. And I was excited, in that web of connections and concealments. The scent of danger, the smell of fear, filled my senses.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Khaderbhai once said that every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it?

There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to feel that a film has pace and rhythm and drama, but you're not necessarily supposed to be worried about how that was accomplished.

People can hide behind a computer, they can hide behind a cell phone, they can tweet. They can say whatever they want. I'm not worried about them.

It's a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.

I don't want to share my worries - that's for me to know.

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

According to quantum mechanics, what we can observe about the world is only a tiny subset of what actually exists.

There was one irrevocable truth in their business: for people to become invisible, they had to break permanently with their old habits. A gambler must never be seen in a casino again, a musician must never pick up a guitar and a sportsman never run again