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What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

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.

We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

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.

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

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

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.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

A woman should be an illusion.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

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.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.