Enid Blyton Quotes

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I can't perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it'll distract from the whole persona.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.

It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

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

I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock.

My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

The outgoing and spontaneous person that the world knew while I was boxing was a persona that I created to sell tickets and promote my career. In my private life, I am quiet and reflective by nature.

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

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

All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

There's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than, the tears of a clown when noones around.