Mask Quotes - Page 8

• My eye-balls are glass,
  my limbs marble,
  my face fixed
  in its marble mask.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Eye, Glasses, Magic

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.244, New Directions Publishing

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• I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

  Annette Bening

  Soul, Acting, Hearing

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 18, 2004.

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• You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Funny, Pain, People

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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• Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

  Deb Caletti

  Insecurity, Superiority

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.

  Reginald Ray

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Birthday, Night, Agriculture

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• I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.

  Geena Davis

  Body, Stuff, Lingerie

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• In Fleetwood Mac I have a persona, I call myself the 'Spider Woman'. I try to imagine myself putting on a spider mask. I become very subdued and quieter, I don't move so fast., I'm in a state of suspended animation.

  Stevie Nicks

  Moving, Trying, Spiders

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• I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

  David Gemmell

  Lying, Needs, Stranger

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 2, 1985.

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• We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,- - This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be otherwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see thus, while We wear the mask. We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dream, Lying, Heart

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Penguin

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• Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

  Doris Lessing

  Mean, Self, Towns

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Four-Gated City”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, People, Dull

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.190, Anchor

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• As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

  Mark Twain

  Honesty, Able, Honest

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.18, Purdue University Press

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• The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain. .. YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Pain, Light, Heartache

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• Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Curiosity, Cholera

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• A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Successful, Men, Judging

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.184, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Embrace whatever you're feeling. Whatever mask you have on right now, is okay. You're entitled to feel.

  Ellen DuBois

  Feelings, Embrace, Okay

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• I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

  Ray Toro

  Men, Suits, Costumes

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• I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

  Liv Tyler

  Father, Party, Sleep

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• I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

  Gerard Way

  Superhero, Robins, Fans

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• I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.

  Emun Elliott

  Dad, Home, Men

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• I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

  Michael Vartan

  Character, Hockey, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

  Lionel Shriver

  Boys, Naked, Faces

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.149, Counterpoint Press

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• I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom.

  Gerard Butler

  Singing, Movement, Wearing A Mask

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• At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.

  Gerard Butler

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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