Quotes About Facade

We'll slide down the surface of things...

even a friendly smile shows the teeth behind!

That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.

Scarface is just a character. He's just something to look at. He's not nothing to be.

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it.

She's going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It's when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

He was tanned and buttery, like a quality handbag; his hair had the color and rigidity of onyx; his teeth were enormous white rectangles. He gave the impression of being handsome without actually being handsome.

the next smallest court, the Court of Priests. This was where the animals were cut and bled and burned on the large horned altar of unhewn stones that stood before the Temple, while a chorus of priests played their instruments and sang hymns of praise to the deity. A bronze laver stood nearby for what appeared to be cleansings. The Temple façade stood sixty feet high behind the altar, with its golden roof visible from anywhere on the entire temple mount.

The whale, like all things that are mighty, wears a false brow to the common world.

Smiling is the chosen vehicle of ambiguities.

Who you are is less important than what you seem.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.

You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.