Willard Gaylin Quotes

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

We are what we seem to be.

You have to be someone.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

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.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

You have to strip people of their poses and disguises.

Your reputation is what you're perceived to be, Your character is what you really are

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

I am not what you see and hear.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

What the people are within, the buildings express without.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.