Quotes About Illusion

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

I'm great at fake typing but in real life terrible.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!

But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

Everyone can guess what 'Corn Flakes' tastes like, even if you've never had them. But what, pray tell, does 'High School Musical' or 'Spider-Man' cereal possibly taste like? In this late era, we have reached the ultimate deracination between product image and what actually sits on our spoon.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I do think deception... There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it's a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say you're not using camera tricks, and then you do, I actually think that's a kind of serious moral issue.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.