Quotes About Illusion

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

Well to me Bigg Boss just reiterated that TV is not reality and reality is not easy.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

I'm good at maintaining a face. If you've got that bravado, and people expect anything from you, then you'll get away with anything.

In a way, metafiction breaks down the story and makes it less real. But in another respect, by that very breaking down, it actually makes things feel more real than they would to begin with.

I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that.

The thing about fame is, you want it your whole life, but no matter how bright you are, no one ever asks themselves why they want fame. You never really know what it is until you have it. You can never tangibly feel your own fame.

Nobody has ever gone broke selling escape to the American public.

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

When I see myself on TV, it's like watching a film with Bruce Willis in it. You think it's somebody else. It's weird.

The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.

I'm still sometimes convinced that I'm just making all of this up and I'm actually somewhere drooling in a straight jacket. This success is such a bizarre thing.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

When you become famous, people can have a powerful yet illusory idea of who you are. You want to live your life, but still, you don't want to let anyone down. I know Ed Vedder, Kurt Cobain, Jerry Cantrell, all those guys felt it. They're smart, real, and all of a sudden, they're put on a pedestal.

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

I think it's no coincidence that people who are good at writing far-out fiction are also good at meta-fiction. Think of all the best Phillip K. Dick stories, where you experience a sort of dislocation, and suddenly what you think you've been reading is, in fact, something else entirely.

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no harm done. After all, the audience seem to enjoy the show and Sally and the theatres certainly enjoy the profits.