Quotes About Illusion

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

I tend to curve my back or pop my hip on the side. I always like to turn a little bit profile, and if you put one of your knees in, it also gives the illusion of more curves. There are a lot of tricks - you learn on the job sometimes.

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

I'm not emotionally excited by the power of cinema's tricks anymore.

It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

Buying into the hype can get you into a lot of trouble, believing your own press.

'Mustanging' was like trout fishing. It is always the big ones that get away. When you did get a bunch of them into a corral, you found they did not look half so large and handsome as when they were first sighted on the prairie.

When you say 'Monster Trucks,' people don't think monsters inside of trucks.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

Film is a truly magical medium.

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.

A revival of 'Of Mice and Men' would have seemed out of place in years of Reaganomics, Donald Trump and Michael Milken, a time when Rambo supplied millions of filmgoers with a fantasy that masked what was really going on in their lives.