Quotes About Illusion

Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Perception is not always reality.

When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion.

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

The problem is that perception is reality.

Instagram is a perception game.

Perception's not reality.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

Life's all about perceptions.

Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through our memories, is so corruptible. The skills that I have can really display that.

You never know what is going on in someone's head when they you think they are leading the perfect life.

Perfection is our enemy... not because we don't want perfect candidates, but because perfect candidates don't exist.

Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

I started performing when I was 9 or 10, doing magic.