Self-Concealment Quotes

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.

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

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

I think I've been pretty private as a person. Nobody really knows me.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

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

I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background's social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual.

Even when I was in my 20s, very few of my friends even knew that I had alopecia. I kept it under wraps. I didn't want to let anyone know, and I didn't want it to affect my career or the possibility of me getting hired for a job.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

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

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

I manage to hide in my movies.

In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I felt that just looking at the world in general, there are so many types of people, and some hide who they truly are. And I feel that every person has some kind of warped identity inside them that they decide if they want to show or not.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.