Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

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.

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.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

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

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

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.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

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

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Life is a masquerade.

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

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

If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.

Men take more pains to mask than mend.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.