Quotes About Deception

Everybody wants to escape, but our escape is the real deal. If we're scary, that's because we're taking you away from you being fed what you want to hear.

It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.

I don't do much lying in real life because I don't get away with it.

I actually thought, like, I was sure 'Get Smart' and, like, 'James Bond' movies, I was sure that that's what real life was like.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.

Perception is reality.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!

Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.

I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.