Quotes About Concealment

Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the sicknesses... Be grateful you rarely see the frightening truth in people.

J'aime, et je sais répondre avec indifférence ; J'aime, et rien ne le dit ; j'aime, et seul je le sais ; Et mon secret m'est cher, et chère ma souffrance ; Et j'ai fait le serment d'aimer sans espérance, Mais non pas sans bonheur ; – je vous vois, c'est assez.

Clothes are an amazing tool. They are an amazing way to hide a multitude of sins; they're an amazing way to be creative. Clothes can do so many things. But at the end of the day, if they don't serve you, it's just a waste of time. Then it is frivolous.

You can't waste time in your life trying to hide the truth.

Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.

Because you're fat, you feel that everybody's watching every bite you take. So, you closet-eat, and you think because nobody sees you eating, then you're not eating. You know, if you're eating a Big Mac in a closed car, can anybody hear you nosh? If I ate only what people saw me eat, I would've probably been about 170 pounds.

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made up like dolls and they can't show the effort they're making, yet under the surface of the water it's a struggle and a sacrifice.

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.

I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

You don't want to show anything, any behavior giveaways that your competition might see, right?