Vince Gilligan Quotes

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.

Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.

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.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

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

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

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

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 play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.

We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

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

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

Don't ever play yourself.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

For me, everything is a performance.

You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

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