Quotes About Make-believe

I'm really good at pretending.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

I love pretending more than reality.

Acting isn't being who you are on screen. It's pretending that you're someone else.

Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

You can do anything when it's not real.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

Oh, I used to lie all the time as a kid." I didn't think of it as lying, though. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a traveling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics.

I didn't think of it as lying. I thought of it as playing make-believe. I told Kitty she was adopted and her real family was in a travelling circus. It's why she took up gymnastics

OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.

Westerns are fun. I wish more of them would be made. When you're out there on a set, carrying a gun, riding a horse, you kind of get lost in that make believe world.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Fiction comprises stories about things that never happened to people who didn't exist.

For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people

for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

pues a esta curiosa criatura le gustaba mucho pretender que era dos personas a la vez.

School prepares you for the real world but I want the fake world. TEEHEE

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.