Quotes About Illusion

They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

Carnegie Hall is as good as they say it is. It's not like Stonehenge which looks great in books but then you go there and it's a pile of rocks next to a highway. There's actually a highway right next to it, but you don't see that in pictures.

Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'

I'm not thin! I just wear clothes that make me look thin.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

My face is so slim that it is the most deceptive part of my body. Looking at my face, people think I am a very thin and delicate person.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

My motto is, 'You may not be as good as you think you are, but thinking you are is good.'

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

The beautiful thing about poker is that everybody thinks they can play.

The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality.

Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

Hollywood is built on delusion. Everyone thinks they're more important than they are. Nothing is real.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.