Quotes About Concealment

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

As much of a privilege as it is to pass, it's painful. You have to compartmentalize your life. That's awkward. Dating can be horrible.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.

I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

I really like sort of disappearing.

So much of my work has been about disappearing.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

The best live among us in disguise.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

If you respect the audience and on stage you put on a disguise, that is part of the show.

Makeup transforms me. I feel like I'm in disguise when I walk my dog without makeup on.