Quotes About Illusion

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

If someone sees me with what looks like a beer, it's always zero per cent.

I thought movies were handed down by God. I knew that theater was made by people because I saw the people in front of me, but movies seemed like they were delivered, wholly made, from Zeus's head or something.

I don't want to see the zipper in the back of the monster suit. Like everybody else who goes to the movies, I want to believe the monster is real.

I think to get Simon Cowell out of his comfort zone would be rather interesting. I don't know what I would make him do.

People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.'

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

All that glisters is not gold.

Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more?

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

The art of making much show with little substance.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is in the sugar.