Illusion Quotes - Page 30

• But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.

  Aimee Carter

  Real, World, Whatever It Takes

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• Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun.

  Tom Savini

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• What can we say to people who think that dreams are the real world and this one is an illusion. Perhaps they're right.

  Lothaire Bluteau

  Dream, Real, Thinking

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• Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Stars, Important, Lasts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m glad to be part of the war on sadness. I’m a part time employee of the illusion that keeps people stupid.

  Marc Maron

  War, Stupid, Sadness

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• The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Design, Demand

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

  Mel Gibson

  Wise, Forever, Going Away

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.

  Ellen Page

  Creating, People, Actresses

  "Reading Ellen Page’s Sexuality" by Marcie Bianco, www.indiewire.com. May 13, 2014.

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• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

  Goldie Hawn

  Children, Truth, Sky

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• My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Thinking, People

  "The Insider Interviews: Tom Hiddleston". Industrial Scripts Interview, screenplayscripts.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

  Richard Beymer

  Caught, Caught Up, My Own

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Perfect, Trying

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• I still haven't gotten over this thing of walking down the street and somebody recognizing you because you've been in a movie. There's this illusion that movie stars only exist in the movies. And to see one live is like seeing a leopard let out of the zoo.

  Sam Shepard

  Zoos, Stars, Leopards

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• Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

  Laurence Olivier

  Real, Magic, Acting

  "Famous Actors and Actresses on the American Stage". Book by William C. Young, 1975.

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• Don't torment yourself with jealousy. It's a silly illusion that someone's life is better than yours when the truth is that each one of us is on a different path.

  Demi Lovato

  Silly, Different, Path

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• Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Ruins, Muse

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doe

  Twitter post from May 20, 2010

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• Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

  Emilio Estevez

  Ephemeral, Film, Fame

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• Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

  LeVar Burton

  Maturity, Shattered, Series

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• I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

  Christopher Meloni

  Theatre, Actors, Hips

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• The theatre should be treated with respect. The theatre is a wonderful place, a house of strange enchantment, a temple of illusion. What it most emphatically is not and never will be is a scruffy, ill-lit, fumed-oak drill hall serving as a temporary soap box for political propaganda.

  Noel Coward

  Political, House, Theatre

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• Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air.

  Renee O'Connor

  Air, People, Flying

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• Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Different, Way, Helping

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• That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)

  David Gilmour

  Home, Waiting, Notion

  David Gilmour (2011). “Sparrow Nights”, p.55, Vintage Canada

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• Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

  Suzanne Pleshette

  Stars, Careers, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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