Quotes About Imagination

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground.

My playground growing up was the fields and forests.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

I'm so into playing different characters, even when I was on Nickelodeon. I just observe.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

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.

It probably wasn't until I was a freshman in high school and I met the people who became my gaming group that I finally found people who were weird like I was: that loved reading and playing games and not just watching a science fiction or fantasy movie but talking all about 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.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

I'd love to do some new plays.

I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter.

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.

I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.

I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

I've always wanted to make music like people write plays, so I was inspired by writers as much as musicians.

I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.