Michael Cudlitz Quotes

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

No one is who they pretend to be

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.

You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.... Occasionally we must adopt their dress and tactics.

A Wolf in Monk’s Robes

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.