The Mask Quotes

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

The scariest thing in the world is losing your mask.

Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Personality is a mask you believe in.

Anybody who wears a mask is scared.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

In fairytales, when the mask came off, the handsome prince still loved the girl, no matter what -and that alone would turn her into a princess.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.

When you wear the mask, the mask becomes you.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.