#illu

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#idea #illustrating #near #novel #simply

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#clothes #films #go #illusion #into

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#actually #apt #dancer #dancing #difference

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#around #beauty #each #exists #got

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.' ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#anything #between #born #charlie #charlie sheen

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#four #had #happy #happy days #i

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. ↗

— Angela Carter

#fools #illusion #whole #world #yet

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#business #disillusioned #grew #help #i

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#commit #crime #illusion #immeasurable #insult