Quotes About Illusion

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer, more charming, and more beloved than they appear to be to a casual observer, and that their stories about their careers are universally fascinating.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of sleight of hand.

In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is.

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.

My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos.

Laissons les jolies femmes aux hommes sans imagination. Leave the pretty women for the men without imagination.