Illusion quotes

“- Porthos: Go home. Find a wench, raise fat babies, live a good long life.
- D'Artagnan: What about the motto of the Musketeers? All for one and one for all.
- Athos: Wake up boy. The Musketeers are just a dream.”
Oliver Platt - Porthos
Chris O'Donnell - D'Artagnan
Kiefer Sutherland - Athos

“Success, fame, and fortune, they're all illusions. All there is that is real is the friendship that two can share.”
Michael Jackson - Scarecrow

“What are you buying when you get on a roller coaster? Not risk, but the illusion of risk. Being hurled to the edge of danger but knowing that you'll never have to cross it.”
Michael Laskin - Albright

“Lie become truth only if person wanna believe it.”
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“What do you think is out there, Maura? A safe little world with your shopping malls, you little league and ballet lessons? Hey! People are killing, Maura. And I'm one of them.”
Aidan Quinn - Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez

“- Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': What about the older people?
- Old Missionary: We can't seem to cure them of the idea that our everyday life is only an illusion, behind which lies the reality of dreams.
- Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo': Actually, I'm very interested in these ideas. I specialise in opera myself.”
Klaus Kinski - Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald - 'Fitzcarraldo'
Salvador Godínez - Old Missionary

“- Jim Parker: Isn't that - water up ahead?
- David Herdeg: No. This is a desert. And that's a mirage.
- Jim Parker: How much longer you think this mirage is gonna last?”

Bobby Di Cicco - Jim Parker
Michael Paré - David Herdeg

“Time is an illusion that cannot be given.”
Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

“- Manny Singer: Heaven is just something that people make up so they won't feel sad anymore.
- Molly Singer: Well, what's wrong with that?”
Ray Liotta - Manny Singer
Tina Majorino - Molly Singer

“Oh, Fievel, I just can't tell you how much I wish... you weren't... a mirage.”
Dom DeLuise - Tiger

“Love is dead. Love is a fantasy little girls have.”
John Cassavetes - Robert Harmon

No hay banda! There is no band! Il n'est pas de orquestra! This is all... a tape-recording. No hay banda! And yet we hear a band. If we want to hear a clarinette... listen. Un trombon "à coulisse". Un trombon "con sordina". Sient le son du trombon in sourdine. Hear le son... and mute it... drop it. It's all recorded. No hay banda! It's all a... (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Green - The Magician

“Yes, it spoils the illusion. After all, there's no use of both of us being dummies.”

Charlie McCarthy - Charlie McCarthy

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know.”
Kevin Spacey - Jim Williams

Sometimes I see myself dancing, and I think... "Wow! Oh, boy! I don't have ALS after all. It's a big mistake. It's all part of a lovely fantasy". But just for a minute.
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“My mother's life had been damaged by a lie, and my brother was forever lost in a maze of illusions that lie had created... and I had followed him there. Jacey would never find his way out, but I had to... and the only way I could do that was to forgive, but I could never forget.”
Michael Keaton - Narrator

“Insane asylums are filled with people who think they're Jesus or Satan. Very few have delusions of being a guy down the block who works for an insurance company.”
Julia Roberts - Patricia Watson

“- Isaac Barr: To tell you the truth, I can't stop thinking about her...
- Alan Lowenthal: Isaac, you know as well as I do that romantic love is a projection. You're not seeing this woman.
- Isaac Barr: Hehe, get out of here...
- Alan Lowenthal: It's a vision. You're in a delusional state.”

Richard Tiffany Gere - Isaac Barr
Robert Harper - Alan Lowenthal

“You are pure illusion, you do not exist. The earth is my witness.”

Keanu Reeves - Siddhartha

“That's all freedom is... an illusion.”
Claire Danes - Alice Marano

“- Butterfield: A lot of people believed in Nix. They haven't forgotten his promise.
- Ray Miller: About...?
- Butterfield: Death.
- Ray Miller: What about death?
- Butterfield: It's an illusion.”
Barry Del Sherman - Butterfield
Jordan Marder - Ray Miller

“- Kirby Keger: It's true love, my friend.
- Kevin Dolenz: Love, love, you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce lawyers.”
Emilio Estevez - Kirby Keger
Andrew McCarthy - Kevin Dolenz

“- Kleinmann: What better way to... to spend the rest of my life than... than to help you with... with all those wonderful illusions of yours!
- Roustabout: It's true. Everybody loves his illusions.
- Magician: Loves them. They need them. Like they need the air.”
Woody Allen - Kleinman
Richard Riehle - Roustabout
Kenneth Mars - Magician

“Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions.”
Jacob Reynolds - Solomon