Concealing True Self Quotes

Pretending to be 'normal' is a lot harder than you think.

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you do all of those things, but it also shows the performers in a very raw state. They have to literally upset themselves to get to that position sometimes. You don't need a load of people judging you or not being interested in what you're doing or being an ass on set because it ruins it.

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.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.