Quotes About Imagination

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.

I don't know that I ever could've imagined just how blessed my life would be.

Yes, I always imagined living in other places.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was - and that my real parents were going to come get me.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

I would have never imagined that I'd become a shoe salesman so that I could give away shoes. I mean that idea is ludicrous.

You see, anything I imagined, I could draw.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

This whole career has been way more than I ever even imagined or dreamed.

I never imagined being on television.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

I'd never imagined I'd become the ambassador of housewives.

When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined, romanticized lie about this particular person, which I find really comforting and exciting to sing about.