As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

- David Bowie

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

- Ian Mckellen

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

- Henry Rollins

I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the fact that in my heart I'm disgustingly earnest.

- Gregory Maguire

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

- Gustav Mahler

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

- Frank Shorter

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.

- Eve Babitz

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

- Douglas Coupland

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

- Alexander Pope

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

- D. H. Lawrence

I'm always so impressed with these actresses with their perfect make up and hair and sometimes I'm very aware that I'm not like that. But I don't think I can do things any other way. I would be wearing a disguise if I started to apply that stuff.

- Clemence Poesy

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.

- Cathy Guisewite

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

- Bob Graham

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

- Blaise Pascal

You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.

- Allan Dwan

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

- Antony Sher

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

- Athol Fugard