Julie Burchill Quotes

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

The world loves to be deceived.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

The whole is the false.

The world wants to be deceived.

It’s a phoney war

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.

The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.