Quotes About Imagination

With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.

I probably spent more time as a kid playing air guitar to Jimmy Page than any other guitar player.

My job description? It is many things; it is a whole universe created around the things that I like.

What Joe and I get excited by, creatively, is exploring all of the different forms of filmmaking.

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.

When 'Johnny Bravo' was going to end, I thought, 'I really need to sell something. I need a job.' So, I sat down and just sketched this little boy with a fairy godmother. I was going to do a boy version of 'Cinderella.'

I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

I think anything is possible if the jokes are good.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.

There is no 'magic water' that you can rub on a script to make the jokes funnier.

I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.

You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe. If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Francesca Simon