Carly Rae Jepsen Quotes

It’s such a floating freak show. You get a bit older and you start to see what’s going on backstage in the collective psyche of this ridiculous industry. … Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I’m just another schmuck that they’re bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that.

The word "superstar" is an ilusion

In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and delight is like the mirage in the heavens, only plain to the eye outside; within is nothing.

[Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Everything is an illusion.