Mason Cooley Quotes

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

What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I'm still very much Kate.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

I don't want a 'good' image.

I like being photographed without glasses. I don't want to be pretentious.

So many people are concerned with being the perfect 'something.' Whether it's the perfect singer, the perfect sexy girl, or the perfect feminist. I don't want to be the perfect anything.

You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.

The pressure of looking a certain way and having to present yourself a certain way is hard. It's difficult to feel genuine about yourself when you feel the pressure of being a certain person.