Quotes About Illusion

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.

With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.

'The Rachel Maddow Show' is a piece of sleight of hand presented as a cable news show. It is TV entertainment at its finest.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

It's nice to pretend we could lead a normal life!

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I don't understand 'The Only Way Is Essex' and 'Made in Chelsea': the way they pretend there's no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.

I think the celebrities today, not all of them , but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they're not.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?