Quotes About Illusion

Hope is the denial of reality.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

I remember I took an editorial, and I was so excited. I got the pictures back, and I looked in the magazine, and I was like, 'Oh my gosh!' My arms were half their size, and I had a thigh gap magically, and all these crazy things. My family went out and tried to find my pictures in the magazines, but no one could recognize me.

I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.

It's not as if people don't know my real age or anything. It's like you're watching a college drama where someone's playing a father, a mother or even a grand father, but every one knows they are actually college students.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

People take reality for granted.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

When you get to Hollywood, it takes you out of your life. It makes you feel cool when you think about all the great things to come out of this town.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That's sports.

If you Google St Petersburg, it shows you some amazing buildings. When you go there, you realise that there are a lot of grey depressing ones that aren't on Google.

It's really easy sometimes to get comfortable on a set and get into the groove and think it's all make-believe so nothing bad can happen.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

The groupies are far more real now than there were then.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.