Quotes About Illusion

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

I did have an imaginary girlfriend.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them.

I was never so attracted to the glamorous world. That never impressed me.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

Reality, in general, in my opinion, has gotten blurred.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.