Quotes About Illusion

She looked as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!

I always felt like a movie star.

You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.

I can see how movie stars lose touch with reality. I can understand that, because you're told a million times a day in so many little gestures that you're somehow special and unique.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

People think that when you work in the south you will be driving in a Ferrari in Mumbai but that's not true.

To me, the music industry doesn't exist, it's like the devil, it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it.

When we first started in Los Angeles, we thought of ourselves in our own delusional way as being a British band, even though we'd never been to England at that point, so musically it's kind of sometimes hard to place where we're from.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.

I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who looks guilty.

I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

I am not a myth.

I, along with everybody else, had bought into the myth of Donald being a self-made man and being a brilliant developer. I had no idea that none of that was true because everybody acted like it was true.

The myth of Naipaul... has long been a farce.