I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.
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 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?
Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power.
There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
No perfume. Because I want to know how you smell - right off the bat. Don't mask it up. I need to know how you smell because I need to know how we connect. A smell is a big thing. Pheromones. Don't cover that.
Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.
. . we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile.
Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea. . . and ideas are bulletproof.
Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.
Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.
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.
Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask.
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance.
I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always know what's hidden underneath.
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.