Quotes About Illusion

It happened on 'Laguna Beach' where you don't know what's real and fake, and I saw cast members who couldn't distinguish what was real and what was fake anymore. It was kind of scary to see, so I kept them very separate so that I didn't go crazy.

When you have that fake beard and stuff stuck on your face, you can't move your face. It's just not fun.

I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

I'm anti-verite. I think the verite style is a completely false thing. Most things are false to arrive at a truth; verite is falsity without acknowledging its falsity.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

False confidence is false confidence.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection.

Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.

A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Isn't television glamourous?

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.