Quotes About Illusion

Women can go on marrying and pretending that their boyfriends and husbands are Mr. Darcy or some RomCom dream man. But where's that going to get 'em? Besides divorce court?

I'm really good at pretending.

Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something.

I love pretending more than reality.

Fans can be a little crazy. Sometimes they go too far by pretending that they're you.

Some people want to live in a world much prettier than the one I depict. But it exists, and I talk about it because it exists.

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

A lot of acting, as I grew up wanting to do, is kind of like magic... I'm not comparing myself to him in the least bit, but if you knew what Daniel Day-Lewis was doing every step of the way and what he was eating, I don't think when he popped up as Lincoln we would quite believe it.

You know what actors are like. You can sometimes be like, 'Darling, darling, we love each other,' but you don't really know them.

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield.

In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

Deception is everywhere.

I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

To me, 'Alors On Danse' is the definition of clubbing. Because everyone is just trying to forget their problems, but actually, it's so sad, clubbing. We try to sell happiness in clubs, but you can't.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.