Quotes About Deception

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

Ideally, you will never know that you're seeing a computer-generated car.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

That's the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It's not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies.

For illegal robocallers, the goal isn't always getting you to answer. Sometimes, it's getting you to call back.

Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.