Quotes About Make-believe

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.

Time has passed like a courier with urgent news.But that's just our simile.The character's invented, his haste is make-believe,his news inhuman.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Pretend and it will be true.

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

But they're not really paper dolls," Melanie said. "And I don't really play with them, not like moving them around and dressing them up and everything. They're just sort of a record of a game I play. I make up a family and then I find people who look like them in magazines and catalogues, just so I'll remember them better.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.

My approach to acting is the 'let's pretend' school of acting.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I'm paid to make believe. When you're a kid, you go to your friend's house, and it's, 'Let's pretend we're both cowboys!' Without belittling it, that's basically what I do - I tell stories.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

One of the things I like about what it is that I do... is that people can have a little bit of pretend.

Adults don't have the opportunity to pretend anymore.