Francoise Sagan Quotes

Very few of us are what we seem.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

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.

Being is like pretending.

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I'm really good at pretending.

To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

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

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Everything you see is not always real.

I am not what you see and hear.

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

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

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

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 realize that nothing's as it seems.

Only a genius can play a fool.

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