Quotes About Illusion

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

I know nothing of life except through the cinema.

Throw a little glitter on a dead flower and it'll mask the decay.

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

I think the idea of opening up for a massive band is always better than actually doing it, and having your name on the ticket means more than the actual set.

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

Fifty-one million likes doesn't mean we're going to sell 51m albums or concert tickets.

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you book a comedian and she points out that the emperor has no clothes.

I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.

There is no such thing as ego; it is empty talk. The nasty part of you, you call it ego. Whenever you get nasty, you don't want to see, "It is me who is nasty." You want to say, "Oh, it is my ego." This is another way of passing the buck. There is no ego. There is just you, and you, loid and you alone.

Tiedän varmasti todellisuuden epä- todelliseksi - Miten siis millään voisin myöntää unet uniksi?

It's stained and frayed in such distinctive ways, but it's very definitely made out of wool. And now...now it's polyester, which means that I'm not lying on my carpet in my apartment. You have lived up to your reputation Mr Cobb. I'm still dreaming!

He pursued false shadows and had nothing to show for it but exhaustion.

Ladies and gentlemen good evening You've seen that seeing is believing Your ears and your eyes will be bleeding Please check to see if you're still breathing

To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.

Ya no soñaba despierto. Había demasiada realidad alrededor.

I'll do the black magic. Then, I'll hand you the wand.

How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.