David Milch Quotes

No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

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

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

I never manufactured my persona.

On a personal level, you wear different masks.

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

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

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I think I'm a million different faces.

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

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.

The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

There are parts of us we stylize and present to the world. And there are parts of us that we don't stylize and are just natural. And they don't just hang in a jarring way, hopefully, but there's an interrelationship between them.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

‎We only have so many faces in our pockets