Quotes About Illusion

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

My hair is massive and fills the mirror.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

I've always thought there was something very marvelous and magical about mirrors, and that they are connected to memory as well.

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

I'm a big believer in confidence, but I think sometimes that can be misleading.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.

It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art.

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

Film has a magical process to it. The dailies, and the thing you see on your little film monitor, that's not the same thing that's going to be projected.

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.

More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

For he had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out about them as one has to find out --through error and through trial, through fantasy and illusion, through falsehood and his own damn foolishness, through being mistaken and wrong and an idiot and egotistical and aspiring and hopeful and believing and confused.

He tried to live before her in armor. He showed off before her. Perhaps, he thought, if he were splendid enough, she would not see the ugly disorder and meanness of the world he dwelt in.