Nancy Jo Sales Quotes

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Life is a masquerade.

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

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

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

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

I'm used to being someone else 10 months out of the year.

I'm really good at pretending.

No one is ever who they purport to be.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you're wearing a disguise.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

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.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

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.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.