Quotes About Illusion

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

Don't confuse facts with reality.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

No one in life can ever match fiction

I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word.

Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.