Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

Very few of us are what we seem.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

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

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

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

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

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

I've been living a lie all my life.

Being is like pretending.

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

I'm just very good at pretending.

Any real person has a front and a real part to themselves.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

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.

I was living a life of a lie, I really was.

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

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

And yet I understood the alienation of being around others who couldn't really see you or chose not to. I'd felt the self-loathing that came with being a fraud, protraying an image of what you wished you could be but weren't. I'd lived with the fear that people you loved might turn away from you if they ever got to know the true person hidden inside.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

No one can keep a mask on long.