Quotes About Illusion

People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.

I want people to know that it's not always dandelions and roses when you're doing something like 'Aladdin.'

Appearance rules the world.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I knew there was no Santa when I was, like, 5.

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

It's scary, the way your mind can overpower what is real and what is right.

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

The screen magnifies everything, even the way you are thinking.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

I love the beauty and fast pace of Hollywood.

I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.

Nobody knows the man behind Rajesh Khanna, because that never existed. In his last few days, he had told me, 'Pack up, show is over.'

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.

Magic is my paint.

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are.