If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

It's smoke and mirrors with this team.

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

It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.

I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was just a trick, that something is all smoke and mirrors, but there's that, like, feeling at the back of your mind: What if it's not?