Michael Dorn Quotes

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

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

No one is who they pretend to be

I didn't think I could be my imperfect self. I pretended I was Marcia, so I was always playing this role. I became her, but yet I wasn't. It's strange.

I didn't realize that pretending to be this 'Hills Heidi,' this spoiled rich girl who I wasn't, would almost destroy me.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

If you're trying to hide, avoid using your own name. Have a couple spares that you can pull out of your pocket anytime, the more thoroughly documented the better.

If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.

I love Sia and how she hides her face. If I could pull off doing that, I totally would.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It's gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there's no hiding.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

I don't look like who I am.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?

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

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

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

When you use sleep mask, no one's gonna recognize you. You're gonna look like an idiot, but it's so worth it.

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public.

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

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

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.