Line #8 Quotes/BecomingTheMask


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4
5	->''You're Puss in Boots, the one who tricks the prince. He hides who he really is and pretends to be someone else forever. So in time he becomes that person, so his lie becomes the truth, see? He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? That's how he finds happiness. That's pretty good, right?''
6	-->--'''Ninamori''', ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''
7
8	->''[[spoiler:Reki]] freed herself from the curse of the sinbound by choosing a difficult path and by being kind to the weak. This began as an act, a mercenary attempt to gain salvation, yet over time it became her true nature.''
9	-->--''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''
10
11	->''The persona that people adopt can transform their true nature, for better or worse.''
12	-->-- ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', Volume 11
13
14	->''Lionel, from the national defense force. Lawrence, a black market dealer. Robert, the politician's secretary. I've spent so much time studying so many Twilights. I know that masterful fake smile of his. And I can see a tiny hint of real emotion seeping out from behind it.''
15	-->-- '''Fiona Frost''', ''Manga/SpyXFamily''
16
17	->''Mitsuki Ayanokouji is my kinder self. She would never hurt the people close to her. She would never ruin an important bond. I want to become that kinder self. For the sake of the day when I once again find something precious to me.''
18	-->--'''Mitsuki Yano''', talking about her "character" in the salon, ''Manga/YuriIsMyJob''
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20
21	[[folder:Comic Books]]
22
23	->''Shock of impact ran along my arm. Jet of warmth spattered on chest, like hot faucet. It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.''
24	-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''
25
26	->''My things were where I'd left them. Waiting for me. Putting them on, I abandoned my disguise and became myself, free from fear or weakness or lust. My coat, my shoes, my spotless gloves. My face.''
27	-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
28
29	->''Gods are not like people. '''They''' are real. '''We''' are creatures of story. I stepped into your part. And now that part steps into me.''
30	-->--'''Loki''', ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'' ''Vol.2, Issue #5''
31
32	->''"What we '''pretend''' to be we often '''become'''."''
33	-->--'''Darth Krayt''', ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy #17 -- "Claws of the Dragon, Part Four"''
34
35	-> '''Megatron''': I once told Optimus I killed for the sake of killing. I wanted to make him hurt me, you see, because [[AllLovingHero when he hurts others he hurts himself]]. And the thing is, when those words were in my head I didn't think I meant them, but, when they left my mouth I realized I ''did.'' If the world thinks you're a monster, what does it matter? The world is wrong. But, when you start to think of ''yourself'' as a monster...
36	-->--'''Megatron''', ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye #33 -- "slaughterhouse, Part 1"''
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38	[[/folder]]
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40	[[folder:FanWorks]]
41
42	->'''Asuka''':'' “That’s... another thing that’s hard to deal with. I keep feeling like it’s too good to be true, like I can’t deserve something that feels that good so easily. Or it’s some kind of trick. Or I get worried that he’s in love with the mask I always tried to project and not the real me.”''\
43	'''Daniel''':'' “Who, the brave, vibrant, indomitable genius he knew? He knows the real you more than anyone else. Or at least can feel the things he doesn’t fully understand are in there. He knows you have pains inside you try to hide from everyone. He wants to help you, to take away those pains, or at least bear them together. Don’t worry about what ‘Asuka’ he’s in love with. The answer is still ‘yes’. You can make yourself into that mask. Free will is the ne plus ultra in my realm. You can be who you want to be. And you have amazing will, Asuka. Just defeat your doubts and remember who you are; the girl who even death can’t stop. I didn’t choose the motto for your ship idly. The past defines you but does not determine you. Put it aside and decide who you are. Act as you would want to be. Or to put it a more vernacular way; fake it ‘til you make it.”''
44	-->--''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'', "[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/a-crown-of-stars-nge-ou.11766/page-10#post-2491498 chapter 34]]"
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48	[[folder:Film]]
49
50	->'''Cady Heron''': You know I couldn't invite you. I had to pretend to be plastic.\
51	'''Janis Ian''': Hey, buddy, you're not pretending anymore. You're plastic. Cold, shiny, hard plastic.
52	-->--''Film/MeanGirls''
53
54	->''"You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it."''
55	-->--'''Gordon Deitrich''', ''Film/VForVendetta''
56
57	->'''Ben Ross''': You know, the funny thing is I find myself getting caught up in it. It's contagious.\
58	'''Christy Ross''': Becoming a guinea pig in your own experiment, huh?
59	-->--''Film/TheWave1981''
60
61	[[/folder]]
62
63	[[folder:Literature]]
64
65	->''You've fooled them all into thinking that you ''are'' Caine; you've even fooled yourself.''
66	-->--'''Duncan Michaelson''', ''Literature/TheActsOfCaine'', ''Heroes Die''
67
68	->''The thought [to try and be myself] was terrifying. I'd spent so long hiding behind masks I was no longer sure there was a genuine Ciaphas underneath them any more, just a quivering little bundle of self-interest.''
69	-->--'''Commissar Cain''', ''Literature/CiaphasCain'', ''For the Emperor''
70
71	-> And, from acting adoration, adoration stole over Lylas. And, from acting a seduction, she was seduced.
72	-->--''Literature/TalesFromTheFlatEarth'', ''Death's Master''
73
74	->Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
75	-->--''Literature/EndersGame''
76
77	->Ginny Usher didn't give a damn about Mesan goons - had even, if not perhaps to the same extent as Berry, managed to put her past life behind her. But she did care, and deeply, about the young man standing in their midst. And was probably wondering - as Thandi had sometimes wondered, about herself - how often a human being could assume a role before the role itself became the reality. Before a man, or a woman, became the golem of their own creation.
78	-->--On '''Victor Cachat''', ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', ''Crown of Slaves''
79
80	->We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
81	-->--'''Creator/KurtVonnegut''', ''Literature/MotherNight''
82
83	->He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
84	-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''Shooting an Elephant''
85
86	->''"The only things I care about in this world are my parents and my sister. I care about them because my whole purpose was to pretend to be [[spoiler: Valkyrie]] and pretend to care about [[spoiler: her]] family. Only it stopped being an act. I stopped pretending and I started caring. I love them. I'd do anything to protect them."''
87	-->--'''[[spoiler: The Reflection/Stephanie Edgeley]]''', ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'', ''Last Stand of Dead Men''
88
89	->I didn’t want to send that email to [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Miss]] [[HeroAntagonist Militia]] because I liked those guys. That wasn’t the big realization. What made me stand up and burn the envelope was the realization that I liked those guys, I was fond of them, [[TrueCompanions I trusted them to have my back…]]\
90	Yet I’d always held myself at arm’s length.\
91	It was stupid, it was selfish, but I really, desperately wanted to see what it would be like to get to know [[TheEvilGenius Lisa]], without worrying that she would find out my scheme. I’d like to see what it was like to interact with her without having to censor myself out of fear that I’d provide [[AwesomenessbyAnalysis that damning clue]]. I wanted to get to know [[TheBrute Bitch]] and Alec better. And [[TheLeader Brian]]. I wanted to be closer to Brian. I couldn’t phrase it any better than that, because I didn’t know if there would be any future with him beyond a simple friendship. I didn’t expect there to be. It still mattered.
92	-->--[[VillainProtagonist Taylor Hebert]], '''Literature/{{Worm}}'''
93
94	->This is not [[SmugSnake Dick Washburn]] you're seeing, not exactly. Dick has vacated possession for this bit of chat. Standing here is not Richard Godspeed Washburn, who sustained a nasty concussion on his fifteenth birthday, the very eve of the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Go Away War]], and who spent his next weeks in darkness and candlelight as the hospital he had gone to slowly shut down and ran out and fell apart, then grew to manhood in the new, broken world. This is not Quick Dick of the Harley Street Boys, who - before the orphanfinders came and settled him in a home of sorts and things got somewhat normal once again - could open the rear door of an army truck and pinch a pound of chocolate before the soldiers ever knew. This is [[MegaCorp Jorgmund]] itself, staring through Dick's eyes and measuring things as numbers and profit margins. Of course, Jorgmund is nothing more than a shared hallucination, a set of rules which make up Richard Washburn's job, and every time he does this - slips away from a human situation and lets the pattern use his mind and his mouth because he'd rather not make the decision himself - he edges closer to being a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive type C]] [[ThereAreNoGoodExecutives pencilneck]]. He loses a bit of his soul.
95	-->--''Literature/TheGoneAwayWorld''
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97	->A year ago, I'd never have imagined it possible that one day I'd stand toe to toe with violent criminals and be ready to gamble they'd back off first. It's curious to think this was the result of one crazy mistake: a young girl, a child taking me for [[IAmNotSpock someone else]] - for a tough guy named [[HardboiledDetective Sainte-Claire]]. The creation of my pen. I'm a crime writer. I write [[InsistentTerminology graphic novels]]. That's crime thrillers with pictures - not in any way comics. You may have read one of them. A couple have been turned into films.
98	->When it all began, Sainte-Claire was the product of my imagination, only as real as the ink on a page. Now I think he's taken me over.
99	->No, that's not accurate. I know he has.
100	-->--''Literature/{{Graphic}},'' by Shane Briant
101
102	->'''Catherine:''' Always she’s had a knack for masks. More than wearing them she became them, you know. It was why she wielded her Name so well.\
103	'''Aisha:''' Masks are shed, eventually.\
104	'''Catherine:''' What if you didn’t want to shed it? What if wearing that mask you got all these things that some part of you, deep down, had been craving? Because [[spoiler: Sahelians]] are still humans, Aisha. There are some things you can’t train yourself out of no matter how hard you try.”
105	-->--'''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil,''' Book 5, chapter 66
106
107	-> She slept, and in her dreams Gara and Lara argued with one another, speaking words she could barely hear and couldn’t understand, exchanging thoughts that would make no sense when she awoke, and she did not know which of the two wore her face.
108	-->-- Franchise/StarWarsLegends: ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Iron Fist]]'', on [[TheMole Gara Petothel/Lara Notsil]]
109
110	->"You are who you choose to be."
111	-->-- ''Literature/TheIronMan'', by '''Ted Hugues'''
112
113	->''"Change is good. Change keeps us growing, and growing keeps us living. But don't ever change so much that you forget who you used to be."''
114	-->-- '''Frances Brown''', ''[[Literature/InCryptid Tricks for Free]]''
115
116	->''"If you live a lie too long, it turns into the truth. Be careful which ones you decide deserve that kind of power."''
117	-->-- '''Enid Healy''', ''[[Literature/InCryptid Tricks for Free]]''
118
119	->“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary.”
120	-->-- '''Screwtape,''' ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters''
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124	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
125
126	->''"My name is [[spoiler:Saul Tigh]] and if I die today, then that's who I'll be."''
127	-->-- '''[[spoiler:Saul Tigh]]''', ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''
128
129	->'''Charlie Rose:''' Is [[VillainProtagonist Walter White]] still out there?\
130	'''Gretchen Schwartz:''' No, he's not.\
131	'''Charlie Rose:''' You sound very sure of that.\
132	'''Gretchen Schwartz:''' I can't speak of this "Heisenberg" people refer to. But whatever he became, the sweet, kind man we once knew? He's gone.
133	-->-- ''Series/BreakingBad''
134
135	->''"Somewhere along the line, the fake life that we created as a cover for me to kill became real. It's not fake to me anymore."''
136	-->-- '''Dexter Morgan''', ''Series/{{Dexter}}''
137
138	->''You've been in that skin-suit too long. You've forgotten. There used to be a ''real'' Margaret Blaine. You [[FaceStealer killed her and stripped her and used the skin]]. You're pleading for mercy out of a dead woman's lips.''
139	-->-- '''The Ninth Doctor''' to '''Blon''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]"
140
141	->'''Bounty Hunter:''' [[WhatWereYouThinking What do you know of the right thing to do? You — who would risk exposing the entire project for a game? A GAME!?]]\
142	'''Josh Exley:''' I hit a home run tonight.\
143	'''Bounty Hunter:''' [[EvilCannotComprehendGood A home run?]]\
144	'''Josh Exley:''' Number 61. I set a record.\
145	'''Bounty Hunter:''' [[FaceDeathWithDignity Show me your true face so you can die with dignity]]. As your executioner I show you my true face before I kill you. ''(He morphs into a grey alien)'' Show me your true face, or you will die without honour.\
146	'''Josh Exley:''' ''[remains human]'' [[IAmWhatIAm This IS my true face...]]
147	-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E19TheUnnatural The Unnatural]]"
148
149	->'''Malcolm:''' Oh, how quickly they grow up. You fucking think you know me?\
150	'''[[SmugSnake Ollie]]:''' Uuuuuh''yeah.'' Yeah, I know you.\
151	'''Malcolm:''' You know Jackie fucking ''Chan'' about me. [[SuddenlyShouting YOU KNOW FUCK ALL ABOUT ME!]] I am totally beyond the realms of your fucking tousle-haired, fucking dim-witted compre-fucking-hension! I don't just take this fucking job home, you know: [[MarriedToTheJob I take this job home, it fucking ties me to the bed, and it fucking fucks me from arsehole to breakfast!]] Then it wakes me up in the morning with a cup full of piss slung in my face, slaps me about the chops to make sure I'm awake enough so it can kick me in the fucking bollocks! This job has taken me in every hole in my fucking body! Malcolm is ''gone!'' You can't know Malcolm, because Malcolm is not here! ''[[ThatManIsDead Malcolm fucking left the building fucking years ago!]]'' This is a fucking husk, I am a fucking host for this fucking job. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Do you want this job?]]\
152	'''Ollie:''' [-...Yes.-]\
153	'''Malcolm:''' Yes, you ''do'' fucking want this job. Then you're gonna have to fucking swallow this whole fucking life and let it grow inside you like a parasite, getting bigger and bigger and bigger until it fucking eats your insides alive and it stares out of your eyes and tells you what to do.
154	-->-- ''Series/TheThickOfIt''
155
156	->'''Lilah:''' It's a survival thing. I made a lot of devil's bargains and I stuck to them. As a result, I live somewhat dangerously, and ''quite'' comfortably. My mother, who no longer recognizes me, has the best room at the clinic. I get up every morning, put on my game face and do what I have to.\
157	'''Angel:''' Thing about a game face, Lilah, you wear it long enough, it stops being something you can put on and take off.\
158	'''Lilah:''' Wow. We've spent so much time and money on you. You're so pivotal to the coming cataclysm, that I sometimes [[GoodIsDumb forget how dense you can be]]. The game face - the one I worked so hard to get - I became that ''years'' ago. Just like you've become simpering and good from yours. You're the new poster boy for human. Thank you very much. I don't want it.
159	-->-- ''Series/{{Angel}}''
160
161	->''"I think ... if you pretend to be something long enough, it's not pretending."''
162	-->-- '''Drew Thompson'''/[[spoiler:'''Sheriff Shelby Parlow''']], ''Series/{{Justified}}''
163
164	->'''Elizabeth:''' You loved it here. You started loving it more and more. Now look what finally happened.\
165	'''Philip:''' I fit in! I fit in, like I was supposed to. And, yes, I liked it. So what?
166	-->-- ''Series/TheAmericans''
167
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169
170	[[folder:Music]]
171
172	->''My mask is growing heavy, but I've forgotten who's beneath.''
173	-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiDJ-3VvTM0 ''Reclusion'']]''', ''Music/{{Anberlin}}''
174
175
176	->''Where can I find my answer? / For all I search / <Where's my soul?>\
177	<It's like a fear>, like a nightmare / Even if I wake up / <All I've got is bones> / <I'm in a panic? Get out, hurry> / <Oh there are mysteries, and miseries>\
178	<Dead or alive>, I waver in between / If I stray, it's <right to left to hell> / My lonely seat embraced / And feelings but erased / I dance <1-2-3 steps on this dark stage>\
179	<Raise your flag, march on, fight> / I reach for my mask's edge / But feel only the clink of bone / <Wars and swords, tears and blood> / My power ever grows / And all I can do is laugh\
180	Where can I find my answer? / For all I search / <Where's my soul?> / <Where's my heart?> / The reality is suffocating / <Don't hesitate, go this way> / I know nothing and I could care less / Even if I'm just going through the motions\
181	You need to live on in this world / Ah, for a moment I feel grief once more / <Misery world>\
182	The sky is jet-black with the bite of <midnight> / The dark of night <always drives me mad> / <Where is that star now? I found the star now> / <But it's so beautiful, I'm so doubtful>\
183	In my confusion dwells <desire> / As I look out now on <sky and land and sea> / I can see the peak of absolute dominion / If I just climb <1-2-3 steps to the royal throne>\
184	<Cast a spell, call them up> / Cry out in despair / At the stumbling dance of my hollow soldiers / <Shouts and barks, grief and death> / Cut down the fearful, let none remain\
185	Go without mercy! Dig deep! / <Break it all, take it all!> / Bring everything to me! / <I just pray... or just play?> / No, I just can't stop / For my fears never go away\
186	I will regain what I have lost / Yes, even if that too has been swallowed by madness / <Crazy world>\
187	I can't see my heart, but my body is all too clear / I must hold strong to what I believe\
188	What need have I for an answer? / I'm not going to stop / <Where's my soul?> / <Where's my heart?> / I'll stay on the course I've decided / <Don't hesitate, go this way> / I know nothing and I could care less / Whether this is a dream or it's reality\
189	I'll just live on in this world / Alright, I'll continue as far as these legs will take me / <Misery world>''
190	-->--'''Music/OxT''', [[Literature/Overlord2012 "Clattanoia"]] (semi-translated, GratuitousEnglish in angle brackets)
191
192	->''Paint her in\
193	One colour ends and one begins\
194	Brush away what's stray\
195	Add the finishing touch\
196	The rapture's cold as a pearl\
197	Now the portrait has captured the girl''
198	-->--"Portrait of A Girl", in ''Music/BareAPopOpera''
199
200	->''Chicanery will always make you happy\
201	But we all know the hat is wearing me''
202	-->--'''Music/MarilynManson''', "Dope Hat"
203
204	->''"So he got a job with the mob''\
205	''smuggling heroin''\
206	''But the law was hot on his trail''\
207	''pursuit was narrowing''\
208	''So he disguised himself as a priest''\
209	''and a Samaritan''\
210	''And felt the urge to be so much more''\
211	''than a barbarian"''
212	->''"Then a vampire came'' \
213	''and devastation reigned''\
214	''This man saw this monster''\
215	''sucking blood from people's veins''\
216	''So he took a holy blade''\
217	''and he stabbed it in the brain''\
218	''The vampire was slain,''\
219	''[[GoodFeelsGood the incident lit a flame!"]]''
220	-->--'''Creator/TeamFourStar''', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxF4v5asYNc "Alexander Anderson"]]''
221
222	->''I was not there for rehearsal\
223	I don't need it anymore...''
224	-->--'''Music/TheMountainGoats''', "Werewolf Gimmick"
225
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227
228	[[folder:Theater]]
229
230	->''It's too late--I have cast myself into my mould. I wore vice like clothing, now it is stuck to my skin. I am truly a ruffian, and when I joke about people like me, I feel serious as Death in the middle of my gaiety. To kill Tarquin, Brutus played the madman, and what surprises me now is, he didn't lose his mind at that game. Learn from me, Philippe, here's what I have to say to you--don't work for your country.''
231	-->--'''Creator/VictorHugo''', ''Theatre/{{Lorenzaccio}}.''
232
233	[[/folder]]
234
235	[[folder:Video Games]]
236
237	->''But at some point, the man became incapable of distinguishing his performance from his person.''
238	-->--'''Rosalind Lutece''', ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''
239
240	->''You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. [[DefiantToTheEnd The harder you beat a man the taller he stands.]] To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind. Men have this idea that they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone. It's absurd, it's anesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them [[WarIsHell what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man]]... [[BloodKnight And show them that you relish in it.]] Shoot to wound, then execute the wounded. [[KillItWithFire Burn them]], take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and [[TheDreaded you become their personal monster. When they fear you]], you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget: it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.]]''
241	-->--'''The Jackal''', ''VideoGame/{{Far Cry 2}}''
242
243	->''If you have so many masks, what does your ''true'' face look like?''
244	-->--'''Moon Child''', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''
245
246	->''A mask is just like a musical instrument--it reflects the character of its owner.''
247	-->--'''Windmill man''', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''
248
249	->''Only those who try will become.''
250	-->-- '''Kimahri''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''
251
252	->'''[[IdolSinger Kira Miki]]:''' Hey Jill, have you ever lost your identity? \
253	'''[[TheBartender Jill]]:''' I've lost my ID card a couple of times, yeah. \
254	'''Kira Miki:''' No, I mean... your identity. Forgotten who you are. \
255	'''Jill:''' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness (What's with the change in expression!?)]] N-No, not really... \
256	'''Kira Miki:''' I did. \
257	'''Jill:''' Eh? \
258	'''Kira Miki:''' Kira Miki is just an artist name. At first, it was hard for me to play the part, you know? But I gained so much satisfaction from the concerts that I decided to invest myself. ...And I overdid it. \
259	'''Jill:''' How so? \
260	'''Kira Miki:''' I became so invested in the character that I forgot who I was. [[IdentityBreakdown Who was I before I became Kira Miki? What did I like? Where does Kira Miki end and I begin? I ... just don't know anymore]].
261	-->--''VisualNovel/VA11Halla''
262
263	[[/folder]]
264
265	[[folder:Web Animation]]
266
267	->'''Lionel Messi's Puppet''': And now, your new World Cup Champion, Greatest of All Time, no asterisk. Won everything he could possibly win, Lionel Andrés Messi! ''[A triumphant horn blares, the audience applauds and cheers, and Argentina colored confetti rains down as the video monitor shows Messi crouched under the talk show host desk, obviously manipulating the puppet]''
268	->'''Lionel Messi''': Thank you football, I am happy.
269	->'''Messi's Puppet''': Messi, you scored another penalty and an incredible goal in the 108th freakin' minute!
270	->'''Messi''': Yes, it was a pretty good game.
271	->'''Messi's Puppet''': May I just say-
272	->'''Messi''': -No. No you may not. My whole life I've let my football do the talking. But now, I will speak for myself. ''[Messi rises up from under the desk]''. I thought winning La Liga was good, and then I won it ten times. I thought winning the Champions League was good, and then I won it four times. I thought winning the Ballon d'Or was good, and then I won it ''seven'' times. Winning the Copa America... that was special. But now, I have won the World Cup ''with Argentina.'' ''For'' Argentina! [...] For the first time since the great Maradona led us to victory in 1986, we are champions of the world. This win is for my country. This win is for all the little children who dare to dream big. But most of all, this win is for me. I f''[[[SoundEffectBleep bleep]]]''king love trophies. I have a sick thirst for winning that can never be quenched. If I were smart, I'd retire right now. But I'm not and I won't. And if you have a problem with that...
273	->''[Messi shows genuine emotion including a SlasherSmile as he delivers his final line]''
274	->'''Messi:''' ''[using his puppet voice]'' SHUT UP, BOBO!
275	-->--''WebAnimation/{{The Champions\|2018}}'': '''Champions Chat: The Final'''
276
277	[[/folder]]
278
279	[[folder:Web Original]]
280
281	->''SO! You wish to learn the sacred art of the grapple from me, Los Tiburon? It would be my pleasure to pass along the ideals from my teachers and ancestors to another generation! ... Know this, my child, that when you wear the mask, who you were underneath is gone, and you must BECOME the mask! Let the mask give you strength, and give that strength to the mask itself!''
282	-->--'''[[MemeticBadass Los Tiburon, Shark of the Land]]''', [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12861560/ sup/tg/]]
283
284	[[/folder]]
285
286	[[folder:Web Videos]]
287
288	->''"When he became stuck in his morphed form, it could be interpreted that that's how he saw himself all the time: as a Ranger. He wasn't Tommy Oliver, he became the powers. It was all he ''was'' anymore."''
289	-->--'''[[WebVideo/HistoryOfPowerRangers Linkara]]''', interpreting Tommy's character in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''.
290
291	->"Ooh, lookit me! I'm gonna put on silly outfits! Pretend to be other pop stars, but it's still just ''me!'' Lil' ol' Taylor Swift! These costumes don't fit ''me!''" ''Yes they do. You are those costumes. They are your personality. They are who you are now. You'll never "band geek" Taylor Swift again. '''You're''' [[AlphaBitch the cheer captain]], and...I dunno, {{Music/Lorde}} is on the bleachers.''\
292	(realization hits) ''Oh God, ''Lorde!'' Where's ''she'' gonna be in five years?"''
293	-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''' on [[Music/TaylorSwift "Shake It Off"]]
294
295	->''I'm sorry I lied to you. I inserted myself into your lives merely to satisfy my own curiosity. At least... at first... it was, nice to be a part of your family. I... '''I WISH I REALLY WAS YOUR DAUGHTER!'''''
296	-->-- Yui to Asuna and Kirito, ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged''
297
298	->''"But, as is almost always the case, she soon realizes that when you do something ironically or for the meme or whatever, there comes a point where, like... you're just ''doing'' it, and eventually Cady realizes that she's actually just fully become the thing she's been trying to destroy the whole time."''
299	-->--'''Alex Meyers''' on ''Film/MeanGirls''
300
301	[[/folder]]
302
303	[[folder:Western Animation]]
304
305	->''Before you start, I have something to say: I came here as a patriot. I had a mission, and I carried it out. What I couldn't know is that I would come to care for the Earth and her people... That I'd come to care for all of you. I've spent the last five years torn between my feelings and my duty. I won't ask you to do the same.''
306	-->--'''[[spoiler:Hawkgirl]]''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
307
308	->'''Tuffnut:''' The plan is to smash those dirty Berkians to pieces, with both fleets! It's gonna be awesome.\
309	'''Hiccup:''' Uh, you do realize, we're the Berkians?\
310	'''Tuffnut:''' Oh, right. Still gonna be awesome!
311	-->--''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk''
312
313	->''"This is worse than I thought. This isn't as simple as pretending or play-acting, Eddy! Ed ''actually believes'' he's become a monster!"''
314	-->--'''Edd''', ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', "The Day the Ed Stood Still"
315
316	->'''[[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface/Stephanie]]:''' (''crying'') I can't believe Chad set me up. I broke my purity ring for him.\
317	'''Comicbook/HarleyQuinn:''' Clayface, pull it together. Turn into something skinny and slip out of your belt.\
318	'''[[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface/Stephanie]]:''' (''Wailing'') Are you calling me ''fat''?
319	-->--''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn''
320
321	[[/folder]]
322
323	[[folder:Real Life]]
324
325	->''People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked...''
326	-->-- '''Creator/AynRand''', ''Literature/AtlasShrugged''
327
328	->''And the distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuthhounds conceive.''
329	-->--'''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Surprised by Joy''
330
331	->''We are what we do.''
332	-->--'''Erich Fromm'''
333
334	->''Also, though I don’t believe in character changes, I do have a theory that if you keep giving a conservative politician liberal speeches to read, he will eventually become a liberal, and vice versa.''
335	-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal'''
336
337	->''When you are in the public space you'd better sound like a true believer. An actor immersed in a role is going to be better at it.''
338	-->--Journalist '''Michael Malice''' on living in UsefulNotes/NorthKorea
339
340	->Essentially the world’s most complicated man, Manson speaks in riddles and misdirections, all designed to wrong-foot and throw you off. I needed to decode and decipher, to waft away the smoke and mirrors, and look beyond the dozen different personalities he adopts in the course of a single sentence, to find the real Charles Manson, whatever that was. Maybe he’s so genuinely unhinged that there is no real person anymore; just a [[TheBarnum madman-slash-showman]] spewing patter like a broken radio.
341	-->--'''[[https://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/charles-manson-and-the-twenty-fourth-trimester/ Start Millard]]'''
342
343	->A role too artfully assumed ceases to become a role and instead becomes a species of identity—an observation equally true of Robert Frost himself.
344	-->--[[http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misread-poem-in-america/ This article]] on Creator/RobertFrost's ''The Road Not Taken''
345
346	->''The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.''
347	-->--'''Creator/JamesBaldwin'''
348
349	->Funniness lives in the interlocutor, not in the speaker. It doesn’t matter how funny you think you are (or think you are pretending to be) - that’s not how it’s measured. At what point are you “pretending” to be a musician if the music still gets made? And often what it’s tempting to describe in first person as “pretending” is more accurately described in the third person as “practicing” - which is of course the way you cause things to Be.\
350	Sociability is also performative. Pretending to be sociable is just…being sociable, despite a disinclination towards it. It’s making an effort towards something you value. So long as the effort is not so great that it backfires into resentment, there’s no practical difference.
351	-->-- Blogger '''[[https://animate-mush.tumblr.com/post/162287339995/amatara-im-pretending-all-the-time-to-be animate-mush]]'''
352
353	->''Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. I have spent the greater part of my life fluctuating between Archie Leach and Cary Grant; unsure of either, suspecting each. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.''
354	-->--'''Creator/CaryGrant'''
355
356	[[/folder]]
357

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