Henny Youngman Quotes

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.

I'm dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.

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'm really good at pretending.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Away, and mock the time with fairest show. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

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

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

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

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

The idea of the mask in any scenario has always fascinated me. Not only does it protect identity, it also allows one to hide.