Quotes About Perception

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

Fantasy is hard to do when it comes to making it look good compared to something that's a documentary or hyper-realism.