Quotes About Illusion

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

Truth is an illusory notion.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

That kind of creaming off the pretty postcard image of the past, I think, is a road to nowhere.

A lot of the people that stop you - well, they're not nuts, exactly. They're more like super-fans. They think that I'm some sort of rich guy, that everyone in the movies is making the kind of money Angelina Jolie is making. They don't realize that most of my life has been a struggle.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I'm obsessed with trompe l'oeil - the idea of something that is existing and is not existing.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

I used to be obsessed with Johnny Depp. I never thought of him as this normal guy. I just always imagined him as someone who lives in a far-off land and doesn't even exist.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…