Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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

We all have split personalities; we all wear masks at some point in our careers.

Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

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

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

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

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy.

The voice that arms itself to be heard. / The face that hides itself to be seen.

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

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

As I get older, I'm sort of fascinated with the idea of somebody who could construct an entire persona for themselves - one that was really, in a lot of ways, fundamentally at odds with who they really were as a person.