Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in emergencies. We can't plan for everything, you know.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

Acting is not pretending or lying. It's finding a side of yourself that's the character and ignoring your other sides. And there's a side of me that wonders wh…

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.