I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.
Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?
People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.
I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.
I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.
I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?
Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
Everyone has a private self and a public self.
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
I feel like a quote out of context, withholding the rest so I can be for you what you want to see.
I could easily not be the person that people know.
He was trying to save both his faces.
Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
When you run for president, and become president, they just rip you apart. Every facade of privacy that you have is gone. I think everybody believes that, to some extent, you can maintain privacy. And I think in the end, everybody gets proven wrong.
Unless cameras were rolling, I was pretty much not Danny Tanner.
