Quotes About Illusion

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.

If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.

The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.

Magazines airbrush everything. If you think it's an illusion, then it probably is.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

History is delusional. Not just an illusion, it's a delusion. America is this giant country, so it has these big delusions, and history is where delusions play out.

Part of my reason for 'Session 9' was to break out, to destroy the illusion of me as 'Mr. Romantic Comedy Guy.'

We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so much of what we spend our attention on is driven by decisions of thousands of engineers and product designers.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

Time is an illusion anyway. You can create as much time as you want.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Words are illusions.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.