Quotes About Disguise

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

I'm sorely disappointed that girls don't recognise me in a normal tee and jeans.

I became a master of disguise and could play the straight man down to a tee, sometimes over-compensating by getting into fights or being overly aggressive because I didn't want the real me to be found out. So I created this alter ego, knowing full well that I was living in my little fantasy bubble, my shell.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

They picked up a beard at a theater costume shop and applied it with rubber glue that was making Sloane's skin itch. Jenkins had

These fiends can take any form they will. That is, they can, by a magic charm or the like, fling a web of sorcery about their faces, as an actor dons a mask, so that they resemble anyone they wish to.

Best place to hide was in a crowd.

Her new boss seemed to be a person of many names.

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

If you're trying to disguise yourself to fool an approaching enemy, then try impersonating a nutsack. Just puff out your cheeks and look uninterested.

In time, the expression "Potemkin village" came to mean a sham, or something fraudulent, erected or spoken to conceal an unpleasant truth. As such, it became a cliché; now, it is part of the language.

If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all.

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask. Stranger: Indeed? Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you. Stranger: I wear no mask. Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask! -- The King in Yellow, Act I, Scene 2.

The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language, as if words might disguise the truth or (worse) bring it to life.

Operation Margarine

As always, he presented a cordial façade that disarmed people

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.

The Higgs is like a toilet. It hides all the messy details

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

That's the easiest way to spot a hooker. Look for someone dressed like she's going to a ball, carrying a bag like she's going on vacation.

Sherlock Homeless.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.