Tim Duncan Quotes

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I often play the quote-unquote bad guy, and I don't know why that is but it's just something that I've always hopefully been able to tap into. Maybe I'm harboring some deep, dark secrets that even I don't know about.

Arrogance is a way for a person to cover up shame. After years of arrogance, the arrogant person is so out of touch, she truly doesn't know who she is. This is one of the greatest tragedies of shame cover-ups: not only does the person hide from others, she also hides from herself.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I've been living a lie all my life.

Sometimes it's hard to tell where your instincts start and your baggage stops.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.