Quotes About Illusion

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

It's all about the special effects.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.