George R. R. Martin Quotes

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.

L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

A mask tells us more than a face.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

No person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another. We are all Face Dancers in our souls.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

Masks are what they seem to be; not so the faces beneath them.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.