Quotes About Illusion

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

Today's temple of truth will become the prison of tomorrow.

Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon which the women paint their dreams.

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

A friend of mine always says, 'Women love me for the man I'm not.'

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.

In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a spotlight, I use certain movements that draw the eye instinctually.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.

It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.

The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.