Masking Emotions Quotes

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

I'm an introvert, but I disguise my introversion by being an extrovert. If I don't have to be around people, I'm not. If I'm around people, I'm gonna do my thing. But I'm not really with the fake kickin' it - everything's organic, everything's natural.

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

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.

Every profound spirit needs a mask.

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.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

When I'm angry on TV, I'm actually not. I'm manipulating you as an owner.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.