Quotes About Illusion

If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are so many actors like that. You have to know very well this is a moment of glamour, and when I go back home, I don't have the airbrush, and I have dark circles because I don't have the make-up on.

It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.

James Reed is inspired, if he is inspired by anyone specific, by P.T. Barnum. He's set up to be the ultimate American showman. His whole job is to sell you shadows. But he's not a nice person, he's not a good guy.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

I've always hated people in costumes with big heads, where you don't know what's behind it.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

People told me, 'You talk about Europe like it's Heaven. It's not Heaven.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

I've got one of those heart-shaped faces and I take weight on my cheeks and jowls and gut, so in pictures I look much heavier than I actually am.

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

Magic really helped me.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

A picture can hide as much as it reveals.