157 Quotes About Masks

A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can’t be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.

People do not change. It is just that they change the masks they wear and the acts they put on, with new costumes, new dialogues and new settings.That is human nature.

Kings have no need of masks. A mask is a release from oneself, a respite.("Thirty-Three Abominations")

A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld,—The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh,And wishes, and denies,—Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.

If all you have seen is the best of me,I'm scared you won't like the rest of me.I'm scared you'll love me only ten questions later.Or worse, walk away disgusted after a thousand greater.

There's no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us.. Mutual Deceptions don't lead anywhere !!

If I ask you to dance, you'll know I've been waitingSo instead, I will whistle in the cold under my umbrella,Carrying a tune that I know you'd be hating,Killing what I want the most in case it won't want me.

It was like a mask had been pulled away from his face, uncovering a monster hidden beneath his friendly façade.

He smiled at her, the same smile stapled to the mask of every career politician.