Mo Rocca Quotes

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people.

I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

I liked to play dress-up.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

I think everyone likes to play dress up from time to time.