Quotes About Visibility

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

By the mid-seventeenth century, the visible image has assumed far greater reality than the invisible thought.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Women are underrepresented and neglected in all aspects of the entertainment industry, so naturally, those of us who want to make a change use any opportunity to shine a light on someone when we can.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

I challenge you to go and turn on the other cable networks to find a face like mine in primetime.

People love to make comments to me on Twitter or social media networks, and I say it's easy for you to make a comment because you're behind a screen where nobody can ever see you.

I know that the internet has helped a new world audience find me.

Especially as newcomers, it's really important to have the Internet, where people can talk about you and listen to your music.

I have been an actor for more than 125 films now. People see me every day, every hour, be it on TV or in newspapers.

The nice thing about being on the Internet is that you're not as recognisable as someone that's been on TV.

This is what gay nightlife is: It's about building an image. You are constantly in proprioception where you're clocking your own movement through space constantly.

The main thing that I learned in doing 'Moonlight' is that we get to shine light on a way of living, or a person, or whatever it may be that otherwise wouldn't have light or that otherwise wouldn't have any exposure, so people have no idea.

I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even when I'm not thirsty. If the store is crowded I'll even go so far as dropping change all over the floor, nickels and dimes skidding in every direction. All I want is not to die on a day I went unseen.

All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.

The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.

You re­al­ize that there's no point in do­ing any­thing if no­body's watch­ing.

Give me a voice. Flash. Give me a face.

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.