Acting Quote by Nicholas Sparks

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

— Philip Roth

“That is why it has been repeatedly noticed that the human life is a theatre where the mask show takes place, and we are…

— Arvydas Šliogeris

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

— Rodney Dangerfield

“I imagine everyone wears layered masks, and parades around a variety or panoply of false selves depending on the occasion.”

— Wendy Hoffman

“Countless human beings wear masks which they hope will cover up what they dislike about themselves.”

— Eugene Kennedy

“All masks are the product of pretending something in our lives is true, even if experience denies it.”

— John S. Lynch

“He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for being too much this and…

— Scott Stabile

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications…

— Albert Camus

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Who wears masks?’ ‘Bank robbers?’ ‘No.’ ‘Really ugly people?’ ‘No.’ ‘Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.’ ‘Yes! They do!’ He flung his arms wide…

— Neil Gaiman

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone possesses several…

— Sadegh Hedayat