#illusion

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#deep #great #great deal #ignorance #illusion

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#love #movies #need #why

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#being #believe #famous #give #illusion

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. ↗

— Brad Bird

#animation #create #creating #illusion #life

Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#birth #daughter #done #existing #gave

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#albeit #illusion #merely #persistent #reality

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. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

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

— Emilio Estevez

#ephemeral #faith #fame #family #film

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#actor #basic #being #celebrities #celebrity

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life