It's all done by smoke and mirrors ...

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

— Mark Ruffalo

I think good filmmaking is when you really hold the mirror up truthfully, and you don't angle it and you don't hide things with…

— Charlize Theron

She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of…

— Christina Dodd

I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit…

— Kehinde Wiley

If you've been cheated on in a relationship, one of the most difficult things is to eventually learn about the multiple points of deception…

— Ariana Madix

I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're…

— Sarah McLachlan

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something…

— Erin Morgenstern

I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted…

— Amy Poehler

“Even on the highest levels it was smoke and mirrors; everyone was furnishing a stage set.”

— Donna Tartt

If Hip Hop is all smoke and mirrors, then I'm the Windex and a napkin New dudes is whack, some vet's is has-been's Some…

— Joe Budden

I should've been following my first instinct, I would've stayed so far away from you. But you decieved me, had me believing that every…

— Anonymous

“It was a life lesson I learned way too early. Pick your heart up off the floor when it was smashed, put it back…

— Adriana Locke

“That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.”

— Mary Pauline Lowry

“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”

— Sarah Pinborough

“Perhaps she thought, this was the way everything in America actually was- all smoke and mirrors, with only illusions of grandeur.”

— Dinaw Mengestu