Albert Camus Quotes

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

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.

For the people that I love I only have one face but for some people we can't have one face.

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

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

You talk one way, you live another.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.

The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.