Mask Quotes

did have a trainer who wore an extremely strong cologne that he thought would mask the - let's call it the aroma - of his workout as he went from class to class, but it just made it worse.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.

If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

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

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

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

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.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.