Quotes About Concealment

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

I really do love 'Panama.' But I'd also have to admit that right now, if I were driven to write another novel like that, I wouldn't even try to find a publisher for it. It simply wouldn't be published. I'd be writing it to put in my closet upstairs.

I have come to hide you, " darkness told the star. "I'm too bright, " the defiant star replied.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Daytime friends and night time lovers, hoping that no one else discovers.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

I was always in disguise. I'd wear masks or weird get-ups so you couldn't recognize me. I was always afraid that if somebody caught on that it was me, I'd never work again.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

When I was pretending not to be pregnant, I knew where I stood with everyone, and I knew that the world would accept me; I knew where I fit.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.