Quotes About Illusion

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

Our effects were primitive. Our stars were a black cloth with holes in it and light behind.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.

'TMZ' took the illusion of privacy away. Now the paranoid star just assumes someone is always there. Decoy cars and false itineraries are floated to throw 'TMZ' off the scent.

No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

Everybody who rides a motorbike thinks they can ride MotoGP. Anybody who does a Gran Fondo thinks they can do pro cycling. Anyone who drives a Corsa thinks they can do Formula 1.

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

I might not be producing that much with the ball in my hands, but my fakes, my jet sweeps, it's doing numbers, and that's the main thing about it.

It's hard for people to differentiate between a character they see on television and a person who plays the character.

Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.