Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

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 am a lie who always speaks the truth.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

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.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.

A mask tells us more than a face.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

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

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.

The moment I realised anyone could be watching - and this is going to sound so name-droppy - was when Ricky Martin reached out to me on Coming Out Day 2012. The Internet has this massive potential, and you can never know the effect you might have on others by just being yourself.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

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

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.