J. K. Rowling Quotes

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

I'm not really an impersonator.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

Beware of current truths.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

Everybody is in drag.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

It's not like I'm pretending to be Freddie Mercury.

I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes, the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

In the end, all disguises must drop.