Quotes About Deception

If somebody says Kyrie Irving wants the Boston Celtics to win the championship without him, they're flat-out lying to you.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

I hate when people cheat.

Everyone cheats.

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.

I've never cheated. I've been cheated on.

I don't like a cheater.

The cheaters are going to find way to cheat over and over again.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

Martin Landau in 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' - he gave me chills.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

Superman looks exactly the same when he puts his glasses on and combs his hair... And everyone acts like it's someone else. I don't buy it. Batman has a proper disguise.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

The cosmetics world and mentalism are both arenas of deception, but I suppose the difference is that mentalists and magicians are more honest about it. People tell me I have good skin, and I tell them the magic secret is E45 cream: cheap, cheerful, and very effective.