Mask Personality Quotes

#1. The reason I suggest that one speaks of a false-self system is that the 'personality', false self, mask, 'front', or persona that such individuals wear may consist in an amalgam of various part-selves, none of which is so fully developed as to have a comprehensive 'personality' of its own.

R.D. Laing

#2. Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

Amit Abraham

#3. 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

#4. I believe in my mask
The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance
And my destiny

Sam Shepard

#5. Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

William Butler Yeats

#6. Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

Philippe Halsman

#7. His face, illuminated by the lights, is blank, like someone vacuumed away all his personality, leaving only a mask

Gayle Forman

#8. The Mask of Sanity - An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality.7

Donald W. Black

#9. Personality is a mask you believe in.

Robert J. White

#10. A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit like a relationship. If you're always there, they can't desire you.

Jacqueline Bisset