The Mask Quotes

behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.
- Paulo Coelho

She had
tried to hide the discomfort behind the mask of competence that she usually wore, only to realize
that in her hurry, she must have left it behind somewhere.
- Jodi Picoult

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
- Lloyd Alexander

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
- Alexandre Dumas

All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
- Alexandre Dumas

Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
- Alexandre Dumas

A rugue dose not laugh in the same way that an hounest mad does; a hypocrite dose not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, wiht a little attion we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
- Alexandre Dumas

Livia, I can't get started if we can't finish. I can't trust myself to stop."
Livia smiled at his concern and grabbed her jacket, digging in the pocket. "Kyle had one, and I grabbed it." Livia held the condom up victoriously.
"Only one? I better make it count." Blake still had the mask on, so he left it to his fingers to adore her. "I'm going to paint my passion on your skin.
- Debra Anastasia

Well, fortunately for me, Mouse's windows are tinted far beyond the legal limit. It's like sitting inside a giant pair of sunglasses. I'm wearing the mask as a hat instead."
"You're being courageous," she said. "I think you're noble." She felt her heart fill with the picture of his victory in the sun.
"I feel very noble talking on a pink phone." He gave a self-deprecating chuckle.
- Debra Anastasia

She watched with a crashing surge of pride as he reached up and pulled the mask offhe was in full sunlight. The orangey red light of the setting sun outlined him. Poughkeepsie's dusk set the mood. No matter how much Blake healed, Livia had a feeling nighttime would always be their favorite. He disappeared from view, but she knew he was strong. So much stronger so much sooner than she could ever have hoped.
- Debra Anastasia

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
- David Arquette

Wounds that haven't healed properly still hurt you. You pretend to allow them faze you, but I see past the mask. Shame, that a pretty woman like you has to perish by fire." Cain shrugged. "I'm surprised they didn't burn you in the witch trials." He shook his head as if he corrected himself. "No, what am I saying? You were with Saain during that time.
- Millicent Ashby

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.
- Rene Auberjonois

everything that is deep loves the mask
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin

All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
- James Baldwin

Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.
- J G Ballard

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

For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.
- Louis Bayard

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
- Georges Bernanos

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with
the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury

He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.
- Ray Bradbury

It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.
- Jeremy Bulloch

He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself.
He thought about the death mask. He could and could not say that the mask and the man were dead. What had happened to him was that the ways in which it could be said had become more interesting than the idea that it could not.
- A S Byatt

I saw the gun. I sensed the van as it rushed forward, seconds away and coming faster. I heard the screams of the fight behind us. But nothing that night was louder than the masked man's astonished whisper as he looked at the boy who stood beside me and said, 'you?
- Ally Carter

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

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
- Philip Stanhope

It's easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
- Nadine Gordimer

Ah! I am a bad man, Lady Glyde, am I not? I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.
- Wilkie Collins

Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.
- Pat Conroy

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.
- John Cusack

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
- Willem Dafoe

she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but his ardour was all the more evident for the reins with which he restrained it, the mask of steel behind which he imprisoned it, his detached demeanour and deliberate gestures that, far from parading a lack of interest, displayed the strength of his self-discipline, that he could so tightly curb the intensity of his passion.
- Cecilia Dart Thornton

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
- Graham Greene

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
- Cameron Diaz

..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.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.
- Dion Fortune

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
- Neil Gaiman

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
- William Golding

It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through the mask of years, if you really love her, you will always see the face you love and won. And a woman who really loves a man does not see that he grows old; he is not decrepit to her; she always sees the same gallant gentleman who won her hand and heart.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
- Elfriede Jelinek

The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness and pain... YOU be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
- Thomas S Monson

The philosophies of men surround us. The face of sin today often wears the mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived; behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness, and pain. You know what is right and what is wrong, and no disguise, however appealing, can change that. Be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.
- Thomas S Monson

I want you to take off the mask, Erik, do you hear me? I want you to take it off right now.
-Luciana
- Susan Kay

He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.
- Susan Kay

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.
- W B Yeats

The au pair was bug-eyed. "What happened back there?"
"It's not our fault!" Dan babbled. "Those guys are crazy! They're like mini-Darth Vaders without the mask!"
"They're Benedictine monks!" Nellie exclaimed. "They're men of peace! Most of them are under vows of silence!"
"Yeah, well, not anymore," Dan told her. "They cursed us out pretty good. I don't know the language, but some things you don't have to translate.
- Gordon Korman

I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
- Anne Lamott

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
- Anne Lamott

True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)
- Emery Lee

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.
- David Lloyd

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W Somerset Maugham

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.
- Colum Mccann

So the mask was just really easy, I've got to be honest. And it was great actually because it really allowed you to get into the character a little bit more maybe than without it, if that makes sense.
- Julian Mcmahon

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

The range of emotions and the masks people wear. The meaning underneath the meaning underneath the meaning that can't truly explain anything.
- Jason Myers

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

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- Cesare Pavese

Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
- Vicki Pettersson

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.
- George Plimpton

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.
- Faith Ringgold

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.
- Mary Roach

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
- Carlos Santana

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.
- Gerald Scarfe

We're still in the Dark Ages. The scared and the superstitious savage still lurks behind the mask of civilization and he will remain there for untold generations to come.
- Michael Talbot

It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of my cape is soaking in a puddle of something I don't want to guess about. I'm crouched behind a kicked-in aluminum trash can. It stinks of rotted meat and drunkard's piss - and I feel right at home. (from Nothing to Lose)
- Steve Vernon

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.
- David Foster Wallace

Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.
- David Foster Wallace

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask..
- Philip Zimbardo