Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

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

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

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.

I'm really good at pretending.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Life is a masquerade.

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

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

For actors, the idea is that you convince people you're someone you're not.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

Only a genius can play a fool.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

From the age of 8, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say - it's all a fake.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.