Quotes About Illusion

There's nothing worse than a dream sequence done all in post-production.

Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

The worst thing is where the world people experience before they go into the theatre is far more interesting than what they encounter on stage.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

My goal is to make a player think, 'I want to reenter this world of lies tomorrow.'

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

I feel very positive that someone told me if I get on television there would be limo rides. Definitely someone said I would be getting a ton of free stuff from companies that want me to be seen with their products. None of this happened.

I feel like it's such an exercise in, like, several things to read a ton of 'Cosmo's or 'Glamour's or whatever, all at once. Because you start realizing how they're just talking about nothing for many pages, and they sort of lull you into this hypnotic state.

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

If you spend too much time in L.A., you might start to lose a sense of what's normal.

I love celebrities, and I love the concept of fame, but it took me getting fame to realize that it doesn't exist, which was kind of a bummer. Fame is great if you're not famous, because it seems like this elusive impossible dream world. And it's not. It's a fancy word that managers and producers make up so they can keep hawking you for more money.

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. We've applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that it's still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.