Anson Mount Quotes

If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

It's easy to be a tough guy when no one's going to come knocking on your door.

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like this other person; I can't pull that off... I can't censor myself.

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I don't like affectation.

When I present those clip shows and movie mistakes and things, the persona the writers adopt for me is unimpressed, superior, very sarcastic - I'm not any of that. I can do it, but that's not what I'm like.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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

Even on the stage, I've played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.

I can't put on a facade every time I go out.

I'm very easy to impersonate. From the look to the personality, I'm like, wow.

Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they're these huge tough guys... they're these gangsters, that they'll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me... the crickets start to come out. They don't really wanna fight.

A thing that I'm always worried about doing is putting an image of myself on my Instagram or somewhere else that looks perfect, because that's not who I am, and that's not what I want to preach.

If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.