Lisa Lutz Quotes

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.

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.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

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

I'm calling myself 'The Doodler,' and with the simple addition of a small burglar's mask, I achieve utter anonymity.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

Your name?"The movements of the man's mouth didn't quite match what he was saying, so seeing him speak was a bit like watching a badly dubbed film. "Alex Gardiner," Alex said. "Your real name?" "I just told you." "You lied. Your real name is Alex Rider." "Why ask if you think you know?

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

When I felt that fame - people were nosing me out - well, I moved on. I used traveling names; wigs if necessary.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

I have a great way of disappearing, and I'm able to do things people would never imagine. I'm often not recognized because I'm easy to hide if I change my hairstyle or put on a hat. I disappear very easily. That's not hard for me to do.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.

I'm wondering whether to have someone go around with my mobile to completely throw everybody off the scent. I could appear in weird places.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

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

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you.

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

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.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

I'm the man of a million names.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

"Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

I've spent so much time in that makeup that I'm now unrecognizable. The business doesn't know who I am.