Quotes About Illusion

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.

I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me.

I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and blood. It's just flesh and flesh.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.

I think sometimes when you see folks on TV, you are seeing the best part of their life, not the really tough part.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

The American Dream - that's our folly. That's our folly. Look where we're ending up.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

I can fool people that I was educated.

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

I like to fool myself into thinking that whatever happens is OK.

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.

I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

People look at me, for example, and think I have this perfect lavish life, that it's lit all the time, when that's not true at all.

You just have to kind of remember that it's just a character on TV. A lot of times people just forgot that and it's easy to do.

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

Lying does exist in crazy forms.