Quotes About Fantasy

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.

When it's finished, I'll get the box set, and I'll have a 'Game of Thrones' month, and that'll be fantastic. That'll be really exciting.

If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

Movies, more than anything I can think of, are a great escape from reality. My reality, in particular, needs escaping.

I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, 'The Mortal Instruments.'

I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.

Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

He groped for the doorless land of faery, that illimitable haunted country that opened somewhere below a leaf or a stone.

Lifted, by his fantasy, into a high interior world, he scored off briefly and entirely all the grimy smudges of life: he existed nobly in a heroic world with lovely and virtuous creatures.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

Oh man," Powell said, laughing in disbelief. "Do they fire lightning out of their asses, too? Do they cum nuclear jelly? What else, huh?

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

But in a story, which is a type of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

Imagination was a killer.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

Ichigo…there were so many things I wanted to do. Become a teacher…or an astronaut…or open a pastry shop…or go to Mr. Donuts and say "Give me one of each!" …or go to Baskin Robbins and say, "Give me one of each!" Sigh… if only there were five of me! Then I could be born in five different towns…and eat five different meals…and have five different jobs…and all five of me…could fall in love with the same guy.

Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this.--reviewing Nicholson Baker's House of Holes

Politics had to be the only arena known to man in which people took great action without caring much for the realworld consequences, and to which the real world was far less important than whatever fantasy

As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.