Quotes About Illusion

My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.

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I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

If you can explain magic, then it's not magic anymore.

anyone can make a desert and call it peace...

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

So you keep running after the things you want, because you think they will satisfy you - and you truly do think that in the past they gave you satisfaction. But the satisfaction itself, the real feeling of it, somehow slips the net. It's anticipated and remembered but almost never experienced.

As a result, we are born pattern-spotters, seeing faces in the clouds, ghosts in the shadows, and mythical beasts in the stars.

Wishful thinking, no more than wishful thinking.

And sonograms distort reality in another, more subtle way: You can only take a picture of the embryo/fetus if you erase the body of the pregnant woman. As with the famous optical illusion of the duck-rabbit, you can't see them both at the same time. In a sonogram the fetus is the subject, the woman is the background; the case for its personhood is made by turning her into gray-and-white wallpaper.

Reality is unbelievably terrifying after one has done nothing but dream.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner. "Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things…

And I'm not going to lie, a little bit of me wanted to believe what I saw in advertising and in holiday movies.

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

Once she started seeing them, she could never unsee them. They stalked her, shreds of magic clinging to the real world everywhere she turned.

An illusion of weakness, masking phenomenal strength.

Memories while true are impermanent, while film, while permanent is untrue.

Comme tout les rêves, celui de l'égalitarisme présuppose un monde fragmentaire, fait exclusivement de braves gens qui ne songent qu'à pétrir leur pain en traquilité sans être molestés ni par les loups ni par les dieux ; or les loups sont dans les "braves gens" eux-mêmes, et quant aux dieux fauteur de "fanatisme", il suffit de les mettre en veilleuse pour que les diables viennent les remplacer.

Rien n'est plus monotone que les illusions d'originalité chez des hommes à qui l'on a inculqué, dès l'enfance, le préjugé du « génie créateur »

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.