Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
My whole life has been a lie.
Darin was 30 when he found out who he thought was his sister was his biological mother.
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you
I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.
I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.
I did my best to hide by changing my name many times. But I was captured by the Chinese police. But because my Chinese was so good, they thought I was Chinese and released me. That was a miracle.
I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her.
What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
There are so many things that can take over your life: money, alcohol, drugs - even fashion. People hand you things, and you start to believe life is easy. And it's not like that - you're not supposed to be the person you play in the movies.
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
Identity is invariably false to facts.
All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.
We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.