Quotes About Imagination

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I used to pretend to be Ryan Giggs.

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!

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

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

It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.