Nell Carter Quotes

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

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

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

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.

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

No one is ever who they purport to be.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

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?

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

It doesn't ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.

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

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 look much more civilized than I actually am.

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.

I was raised to pretend.

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

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.

The man who plays his part upon the theatre of life almost always maintains what may be called an artificial character.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

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

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

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