Bill Condon Quotes

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

You can't hit what you can't see.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one.

Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

Scandals are only increased by hushing them up.

Some people run away from things.

Flat or uninteresting writing often signals something deeper that is being covered up.

I think pressure gets to people when it appears they're trying to cover things up.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?” “Right,” she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. “Never happened.” He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. “Claire—” “I know.” “Lock the door,” he said.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.