David Levithan Quotes

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

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

I never give my real self. I have a hundred sides, and I turn first one way and then the other. I am playing a deep game. I have a number of strong cards up my sleeve. I have never been myself, excepting to two friends.

We all have our own closets to come out of.

I am assuming my father learned at an early age that there is nothing more dangerous than showing your true self. I think a lot of us learn that, and it actually may be true.

The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.

I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

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

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.

I'm not just a feel-good story.

Just because you see me singing up on a stage doesn't mean I don't have real life behind it.

I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—​for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.

I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside...Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.

You always draw from yourselves even if you're playing the most crazy type of person. What you really want is to be three-dimensional.