Quotes About Illusion

The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.

It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

It is very easy to make an art film. They are an exercise in self-deception.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

We must all learn how to separate reality from fantasy.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

The whole basketball world, it's a fantasy and it's short-lived.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

I knew what show business was, which was why I didn't want in on that action. I saw what happens! You get it, and then you lose it.

There isn't any more real show business.

I hate the showbiz scene.

I'm a magician. A lot of people don't know that I've won awards. I used to do big stage shows.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

I genuinely had always thought, this sounds dumb, I always thought that 'RuPaul's Drag Race' was shot in the basement of RuPaul's house.

I now realize the parts I played are too good to be true.

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

The thing about astroturfing is that it can be really believable.