Quotes About Illusion

Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

Some people see what they want to see.

The human animal only sees what it wants to see.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

A severe war lurks under the show of peace.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.