Quotes About Concealment

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

I look like vanilla pudding so nobody knows that on the inside I am spider soup.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

While his life was impeccable on the surface, he felt he was behind glass; moving through the world in a separate compartment, touching no one else.

All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and drink whole cans of condensed milk in my room.

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

I have this weird thing where if I close my eyes, I feel like no one can see me.

It occurred to me that it would benefit me to play without emotion - well, without emotion others could see, anyway. Card players profited from having a poker face so opponents wouldn't know how good or bad their hand was, and I figured a deadpan expression would work in tennis, too.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

When they do actually get pregnant, most expectant mothers understandably keep the whole thing a secret because of how fragile the first four months can be.

When I don't reraise with a premium hand like K-K, I'll just smooth-call. Sometimes I just don't want to announce the strength of my hand to the entire table.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

We may like to pretend otherwise, but we all have thoughts we don't want anyone else to know, things we've done that would change the way people feel about us, or parts of our lives that we would rather forget.

It's impossible to exorcise the darkness out of you. We can pretend it's not there until something bursts.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I don't like how sometimes people pretend to not be a certain way.

Sometimes people pretend to be someone else and act in a different way, everyone carries an invisible mask.

Like, I've had full interactions with fans as my brother and they don't notice. Pretending to be Dev is easy. I just act like myself except much louder.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

I am the Love that dare not speak its name.

No one knows me with dark hair.