Rod Steiger Quotes

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

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

You can hide as cleverly as you like, but in the final analysis mimicry is deception, pure and simple. It doesn't solve a thing.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Artifice is art.

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

If you really want to conceal something, leave it lying about where everyone can see it.

Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

she shall scant show well that now shows best.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.