Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

This is almost the most famous story The last samurai - Samurai story - in Japan.

I am not what you see and hear.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Anyway, so what he did was, he spread sheets for 100 yards and underneath them he'd put things so there were bumps and different levels and on top he'd put little bushes and if you didn't look to close, it looked like snow!

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Very few of us are what we seem.

What we want is not freedom but its appearances.

Is there anything we can appear to do?

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

It’s not only what you do in politics. It’s what you appear to do.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.

With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade.

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

Camouflage is about much more than concealment and going unnoticed. There's a whole game involved between revealing and hiding.

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.