#mask

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#civil #civil war #could #go #grenades

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#choosing #get #had #helps #leather

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#behind #challenge #character #convey #create

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#become #character #character actor #could #course

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#arts #being #being funny #certainly #citizen

This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#behind #british #calls #counterpart #dangerous

People think actresses find public speaking easy, and it's not easy at all; we're used to hiding behind masks. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#easy #find #hiding #masks #people

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#covering #face #greatness #mask #obscures

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ↗

— John Dryden

#fear #great #however #mask