Quotes About Concealment

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

I have a good poker face because I am half-dead inside.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that person was hideous,' and I'm nodding, and I'm thinking, 'It's you, you fool!'

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

My beard is just an ongoing effort to hide my face as much as possible.

There's a deli around the corner from my office where I'd get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

History can never be covered up.

I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.

Celeb crushes? Chris Brown - I hope he doesn't really find out.

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.