#mask

We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#pretending #pretense #danger

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#letters

EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla? Audience: Yeah. EA: Yeah, they do that to mask the chemicals that are actually killing you. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#mask #autumn

The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#controlled #home #masks #surroundings #their

For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#i #like #look #mask #myself

There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that. ↗

— Steve Moore

#avatar #beauty #beauty-is-not-skin-deep #face #flesh

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#clothes #dress #go #i #mask

I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#closer #could #expressing #get #had

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #mask #secret #life

I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?' ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#class #did #ever #going #i