Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

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.

We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.

As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

I think 'E.T.' is a quite extraordinary piece of cinema.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are.

I love 'Peter Pan' to death. It's one of the most influential pieces of storytelling in my life. It made a huge impact on how I grew up. I love the cartoon. I love the 2003 version.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.