Quotes About Imagination

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

In a perfect world, I would be 6-foot-3 and have a perfect head of hair and look like Orlando Bloom.

In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.

Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So, as all kids do, you always have a fantasy of what perfection would be. And my guess is that Michelle's childhood was his idea of perfection. It allowed him to anchor himself with her and with her family.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.

I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

We've been around the world, we've performed in places we couldn't even imagine we'd perform in.

I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it in that way, as a creator of something, not so much a performer. So that's in my head.

As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.

As a young performer, I didn't know that you can have a great time playing someone in terrible crisis. The more you know it's not real, the deeper you can go into it. And the easier it is to let it go when it's done.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.