Quotes About Illusion

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

There are people who live under the delusion that simply because they will it to be so, it will be so.

I'm so grateful for my endless delusion.

I guess a little bit of delusion can go a long way.

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.

Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

Some of these love stories can be destructive as examples of what it means to really love. To think that someone is your one and only, that you're fated to be with this person, is a really powerful, sexy fantasy - but it is a fantasy, at least in part.

The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

Sometimes a player can look like a million bucks on tape, but in real life, the kid can't play a lick.

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

There is no man in the dream.

she looked like a porcelain doll. A very pissed off and evil porcelain doll.

We didn't live in a normal world, of course, but in this kiss, it was easy to imagine we did.