Glenn Danzig Quotes

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

I've never been too concerned with what I'm wearing, and that probably makes a lot of people angry, but I let the music do the talking and let the image be what it's going to be.

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

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

Whatever big movie I work in, ultimately my concern is my personality. I make sure that I keep it up.

I look this way and dress this way all the time, famous or not.

I can't act. I can't lie.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.

Seriously, I don't think there's any right way to do anything apart from if you're just being you; then it's a sincere situation.

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.