Avi Kaplan Quotes

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

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.

I always loved dressing up and telling stories.

I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

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

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

I never play without my cape.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

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

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

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

I liked to play dress-up.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.