Quotes About Concealment

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

If you conceal things, they become more charged.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

According to my mother, positively no one, least of all herself, had even the faintest suspicion that she was heavy with child at the time of my birth.

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

In Sweden it's not allowed to say good things about yourself.

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

Calling yourself the 'Best Kept Secret' is a die on your own sword.

I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn't told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there's a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can't see what it looks like.

I've thought a lot about those veils. I wonder if, every once in a while, someone is born without one.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

But Why didn't she tell me? Why hide it?" ..."Would you brag about having a brother like me, sir?" Major Adams cut him a sharp look, then with a shrug seemed to accept his excuse...which was fairly insulting, if Bradley thought about it...