--- title: "1 Illusion People Quotes By Ben Hecht" description: "1 Illusion People quotes by Ben Hecht. Plus more from Ben Hecht and more Illusion People sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/ben-hecht-8979_actors_like-the-actor-authority-has-faith-in-it_1066566.png" --- > [Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/like-the-actor-authority-has-faith-in-its-false-whiskers-but-its/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/ben-hecht-8979_actors_like-the-actor-authority-has-faith-in-it_1066566.png) ## More by Ben Hecht > [People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/people-s-sex-habits-are-as-well-known-in-hollywood-as-their-political/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/movies-are-one-of-the-bad-habits-that-have-corrupted-our-century-they/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/chicago-is-a-sort-of-journalistic-yellowstone-park-offering-haven-to/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/i-know-that-a-man-who-shows-me-his-wealth-is-like-the-beggar-who/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/listen-little-boy-in-this-business-there-s-only-one-law-you-gotta/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/there-s-only-one-law-you-gotta-follow-to-keep-outta-trouble-do-it/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/the-only-practical-way-yet-discovered-by-the-world-for-curing-its/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/since-my-boyhood-i-have-sought-always-to-please-but-out-of-a-kindness/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [“was asked, ‘Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?’ I replied, ‘No.’ . . . The old ones will pass. They will bear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/was-asked-can-you-bring-six-million-jews-to-palestine-i-replied-no/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [“I noticed early that pompous people have actually less a high opinion of themselves than a desire to create such an opinion in others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/i-noticed-early-that-pompous-people-have-actually-less-a-high-opinion/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/three-years-ago-the-white-hope-of-the-theatre-today-a-mug-that-s-new/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/television-excites-me-because-it-seems-to-be-the-last-stamping-ground/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [We are going to make sure that there is high-speed broadband available to everyone, and affordable to people historically kept out of it. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/we-are-going-to-make-sure-that-there-is-high-speed-broadband/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/there-was-a-land-of-cavaliers-and-cotton-fields-called-the-old-south/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) > [Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-hecht/out-of-the-seventy-movies-i-ve-written-some-ten-of-them-were-not/) [Ben Hecht](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-hecht/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/illusion-people/ben-hecht/#itemlist", "name": "1 Illusion People Quotes By Ben Hecht", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. 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