Misleading Perception Quotes

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.

It's not fair that people wrote that all of my films had not done well. There were a few films like 'Nippu,' 'Devudu Chesina Manushulu' and 'Sarostaru' which were really bad. But, 'Veera' and 'Dharuvu' had done well. Strangely, people have added them to my 'flop list.'

I can see why there's a misconception that it's easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn't work out at all. In fact, it's the reverse.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

All political power is primarily an illusion …. Mirrors and blue smoke …

A lot of people think, and Microsoft is happy to let them think, that all great things are invented by Microsoft. In fact, very, very little has been invented by Microsoft.

Everyone thinks I am rich, I have a plush office, I make advertisements and travel - but only I know the kinds of problems I face.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'

The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

I'm not dangerous, but I have a sharp nose. I will probably be playing bad guys forever because of my face.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

It's always good to be underestimated.

A reformer thinks he was elected because he was a reformer, but the truth of the matter is he was elected because no one knew him.

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

What you get is no longer what you see.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.