Quotes About Illusion

For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days.

Reality TV is anything but.

I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction.

Reality TV is not real.

I'm not a fan of reality TV.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.

I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

We live in this realm where things exist but we pretend they don't exist, so that makes them, you know, nonexistent.

You cannot reason with delusion.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.

My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

You can't recover memories of a missing event. That's a fallacy.

I believe that sometimes, when you start out at 18 years of age on the red carpet, it can make you think, 'This is normal, this is easy.'

The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.