Quotes About Illusion

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

To me, Batman is definately Bruce Wayne's darker side. The challenge is playing it as two separate aspects of the same person. I have to create the illusion of a Dark Knight, who's mysterious and strong.

It's human nature to take the easy route and leap at storage methods that promise quick and convenient ways to remove visible clutter. Putting things away creates the illusion that the clutter problem has been solved. But sooner or later, all the storage units are full, and the room once again overflows with things.

Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Relationships have become like pizza and coke, which might look fancy but has nothing good to offer.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

L.A. is conventional to a hyper-real degree. It's plastic.

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage.

When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.