Mask Quotes

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde)
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. View quote
Chinua Achebe
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. View quote
John Updike
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. View quote
Denis Diderot
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. View quote
Kevyn Aucoin
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. View quote
John Updike
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status. View quote
Stephen Harper
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade for a role, you give up your ability to feel and in exchange put up a mask. View quote
Jim Morrison
The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love. even of people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, he said, it had to be fought for. View quote
Colum McCann
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy. View quote
Gaston Leroux
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. View quote
Gerard Butler
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. View quote
Victoria Abril
This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him. View quote
Conan O'Brien
With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth. View quote
Peter Mayhew
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. (Adam Clarke)
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. View quote
River Phoenix
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. View quote
Chris Hedges
If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you. View quote
Leonard Cohen