Quotes About Deception

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.

It doesn't really exist; it's just basically lots of different stages between the two pieces, and you end up with, like, a third shape that doesn't exist but is suggested to you by the image.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.

I saw a clown knock the head off another clown and I thought it was the real thing. It scared me so much, I made my mother take me home and I've dodged circuses ever since.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

The most disappointing businesses, for me, are the ones where the people flat-out lie. I had one in Queens where I gave them a couple hundred thousand dollars and they started spending it on themselves.

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