Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

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

We are not always even what we are most.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

I am myself a fabulous fake.

As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I'm not what I make.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.