Quotes About Illusion

My first movie was 'The Mask Of Zorro,' and that was all swords and horses and swashbuckling, and I thought, 'This is what movies are.' Obviously, I never made another one like that again; those are very rare.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

My fans love me; they've made me this sex symbol. I don't feel I am, but they feel that way. They find me attractive, like I'm a sexy dude. I try my best to make them believe the illusion.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

My favorite marketing gimmick, the WonderBra. Doesn't your date notice that your chest feels like a stuffed animal? And what happens when you get home and take it off? It's called the WonderBra because the guy is sitting there thinking, "I wonder where her boobs went?"

You could call a haddock a horse, but woe betide you should you try to saddle it and ride to market.

Sex can look like love if you don't know what love looks like.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface; and yet underneath the pot is slowly coming to a boil.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Standing in the back of the dark opera house and gazing at the huge stage before them, gay with gold-scrolled scenery and sumptuously costumed singers, the air vivid with bright music, was one of the most enthralling experiences of Blanche's life. For a time, she forgot her doubts about reality in the sheer delight of illusion. But, as Rose reminded her during the intermission, perhaps it wasn't illusion. Perhaps it was a glimpse of what reality was really like.

Evil things often look beautiful. But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good.... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.

So what to do? . . . She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to say. Whether in politics, morals or shopping, we have far less than we imagine. In the end what we have to do often doesn't even figure on our list of pseudo-options.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

De camera staat nu op zijn kop. Met mijn voeten hang ik aan de straten van de stad, mijn hoofd zwabbert in de leegte. Trams slaan vonken uit de ruimte. Lantaarnpalen breken los uit het trottoir en storten de diepte in. De regisseur is verliefd geworden op zijn effect en vergeet z'n levensgevaarlijk rondscharrelende hoofdrolspeler. Ik raak verward in de glanzend berijpte takken van een boom.

Liefde is altijd ergens anders, een watervlugge bokser met prachtig voetenwerk en oogverblindende schijnbewegingen, die nooit toeslaat en die niet te slaan is.

Man can no more see the world than a fish can see the river bank.

La réalité du monde ne lui apparaissait pas solide.

I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.

I resolv'd to faign, that all those things which ever entred into my Minde, were no more true, then the illusions of my dreams.

It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.

Daha zor olan?, daha güzel olarak addetmek ölümlülerin ortak kusurudur.

Considerando que quaisquer pensamentos que nos ocorrem quando estamos acordados nos podem também ocorrer enquanto dormimos, sem que exista nenhum, nesse caso, que seja correto, decidi fazer de conta que todas as coisas que até então haviam entrado no meu espírito não eram mais corretas do que as ilusões de meus sonhos.