Kami Garcia Quotes

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

Everyone has a mirror face that's so different from their natural face. And I think it's interesting, seeing the way people want to be viewed when they're putting themselves together.

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

You have to be someone.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I was the all-American face.

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.

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

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

You never know what's going to happen to you when you head out into the big world. And when you get older, you don't know how you're going to be thought of or seen.

I am not what you see and hear.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

There are people who love you and people who hate you, but for me, more so, people only think they know me by how I act or perform on a tennis court.

I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

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.

The whole image thing gets in the way. Then there are the guys that it excites them and it's what draws them to me. But I don't know whether they would care for me if I didn't have this image.