Quotes About Illusion

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.

Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

People always say, 'My family is so normal,' and when you poke into them, they never are.

To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress of middle-class and upper-middle-class African Americans, creates the illusion of great progress.

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.

It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.

Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it's exactly how you do portrait. You use pencil to make a 3D effect. Makeup is the same... You are able to create an illusion of perfection and balancing proportion.

There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.

We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.

A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

I miss the newness of Magic Eye posters, which really are amazing.

They say you look ten pounds heavier on TV, but it makes your beard look longer.

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.