Quotes About Concealment

A fault is fostered by concealment.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

Sometimes people can see a movie of mine and not know until the credits roll that I wrote the score. That makes me feel good, that I can get out of that box every once in a while.

I'm good at disguising my feelings.

You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

I'm a firm believer that what you don't see is always scarier than what you do.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.

I'm a technician whose efforts go into hiding my limitations as an actor.

The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it's me.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

Acting, when you don't want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don't like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident on the spot, or does he assume it is neither known about by those present nor immediately perceivable by them?