Damon Albarn Quotes

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

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

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

No one is ever who they purport to be.

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

I never thought I could pretend to be someone else.

To say what your disguise is would be foolish.

Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would feel like. It was fun. It was even a little thrilling.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?

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

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

It's fun to be someone else.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.

Being is like pretending.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.