Quotes About Illusion

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.

My goal is to get people to really believe that the impossible is real, and not that I'm responsible for it. I want them to believe that they're having the most unusual, magical and bizarre days of their lives.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

People have been upset in the past about pay-per-view fights because they got sold a lie or an illusion that was not real.

A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening fish when she falls into the water.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

If a man smiles all the time, he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.

A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day, would have to begin it again tomorrow.