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.
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
The soul is an illusion.
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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.
Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.
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.
I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Love is not blind. Romance is. Romance is the most dangerous thing. Romance is like an illusion. It shows you things, and you hear things that don't exist.
You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
I don't put a girl in a box and clap my hands three times, and she's gone. I get in the box, and I vanish, and I reappear at the other side of the stage. That way, people don't think, 'That's a great illusion.' They think, 'Doug's a great magician.'
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
