Quotes About Illusion

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

There is a God we want and a God who is, and the two are not the same.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool.

on fox news).... it's like watching a Disney movie about the news.

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

But everything's Horror, isn't it? Sometimes you just can't see the blood

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

Moms are so oblivious. It's like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking.

THE OBSERVER AND HIS OBSERVATION, AS WELL AS THE WORLD OBSERVED, APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR TOGETHER. BEYOND IT ALL, THERE IS VOID. THIS VOID IS ONE FOR ALL.

The world is not a static backdrop across which humans can move, building their suburbs where they will, the only intelligent actors on the planet. They call it the American dream, as George Carlin once put it, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.