Quotes About Illusion

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.

The cinema is death at work.

Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.

It's just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.

During the war, women without nylons drew lines up the backs of their legs to give the illusion of silk stockings. Painting over grey hair with spray-on root touch-up - or even dark eyeshadow - is the Covid-19 equivalent.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.'

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.

I think it's mainly when I need inspiration I look at the old pictures. I don't find it as much in the new stuff. I love Carole Lombard. I think she's wonderful. Gloria Grahame was really great. Garbo. Dietrich. People knew how to create an illusion. Now everything is very realistic and straightforward. Everyone's grunge.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.