These lines of dialogue illustrate how characters have employed masks in a variety of stories.
Patrick Bateman: I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.
American Psycho (screenplay by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner)
Miss Kitty: Remember, the real lady is what's underneath the mask.
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (written by Flint Dille, David Kirschner, creator, Charles Swenson, story)
Phillippe: I wear the mask. It does not wear me.
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film screenplay by Randall Wallace)
Captain Ahab: Speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me! Look ye, Starbuck, all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks. Some inscrutable yet reasoning thing puts forth the molding of their features. The white whale tasks me; he heaps me. Yet he is but a mask. 'Tis the thing behind the mask I chiefly hate; the malignant thing that has plagued mankind since time began; the thing that maws and mutilates our race, not killing us outright but letting us live on, with half a heart and half a lung!
Moby Dick (1956 filmscreenplay by Ray Bradbury and John Huston)
Sir Percy: If we are to succeed, we must maintain our anonymity, and mask our identities. Even if it means suffering the mockery of others. Being taken for fools, fops, nitwits, even cowards.
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 TV teleplay by William Bast)
Darth Vader: Luke help me take this mask off.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas)
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