Quotes About Illusion

You've got to swank in Hollywood.

I don't live in the Hollywood bubble. I never have and I never will.

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

Everyone claims to have found the 'Holy Grail' - the perfect formula that can guarantee a hit in Bollywood. But those who seriously believe in it are deluded.

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Hopefully it doesn't come as too much of a shock that artists we love watching or listening to for an hour or two aren't always people with whom we otherwise would want to spend 20 minutes.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

At every Ozzfest show, there's horns and devils somewhere; there's some kind of darkness somewhere. But the thing is, this is a stage, homey, and those fools are entertainers. And you know what, it shows! It's fake.

Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.

I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)

Identity and resemblance would then be no more than inevitable illusions - in other words, concepts of reflection which would account for our inveterate habit of thinking difference on the basis of the categories of representation.