Quote about hiding behind a mask?

There have been several that sound similar. The first I thought of was from V for Vendetta.

“There is a face beneath this mask, but it isn't me. I'm no more that face than I am the muscles beneath it, or the bones beneath that.”

Some others that I found from varous poems, movies, etc...:

“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

"The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me."

“All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.”

“The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.”

No one cared who I was until I put on the mask!

lol

I thought the same thing, but figured I'd try to help and keep my mouth shut.

valid point,
there were two I had narrowed it down to
“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”
and the one someone posted above (karma given thanks a lot)
I'm siding with the one I actually remember