Revealing True Self Quotes

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me

My theory is people say under pressure for the most part what they really mean.

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

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

The person is a mystery. What I'm playing is the person so I really get to tell you and show you and communicate to you who I think the real person is and that real person is me. The most important thing is to play the human being you are creating, which is my job.

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

Sometimes you have to show them what they want to see in order to get them to show you who they really are.

Men do not change; they unmask themselves.

The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

I wanted to show the world the real Pratyusha.