Phil Hartman Quotes

The beauty of the character is that it's like camouflage. It's the best costume ever. I rarely get recognized as Pornstache when I'm out in public. Most people recognize me as the Law & Order guy, when I'm out in public.

I love dressing up and putting on the makeup and the hair and the clothes and just being a different person for a day. Maybe it's just the idea that you can kind of hide behind it all in a way.

When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

It's fun to be someone else.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.

Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

It's always been easier for me to have a costume to hide behind.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.