Quotes About Fantasy

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

[Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

If you look at American studios, the big productions have nothing to do with reality.

I loved studying the Medieval world; that's why I love 'Game of Thrones.'

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

The fashion industry is based on these images that don't exist.

Reality is a nice place to visit, but I sure would not want to live there

Reality is for those who lack imagination

Though dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on

A kiss may not be the truth but it is what we wish were true.

Opera singers hardly ever got to slay dragons.

No elaborate stories of monsters and quicksand and lightning and having to cross rivers of hot lava by jumping on the heads of ravenous lava earwigs the size of cows, with pincers made out of giant steel knives?