Quotes About Illusion

The 'cash me ousside' girl isn't even a person. She doesn't exist.

Football can change really quickly; you really are king for a day. Once you get caught up with things and think you've arrived... you've never arrived in football.

Sometimes you get caught up living something that's not true. The people around you, the people you're involved with, are not the right people.

We were wised up early to not celebrating our birthdays and that there was no Santa Claus and no magic.

It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.

Money came in left, right and centre; you just thought that's how it was for everyone and that's how it will always be.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

People are acting like Keith Thurman has a cape like Superman and can fly.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.