Abi Morgan Quotes

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

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

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

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

When we were kids, our parents would let us play outside all day, and there was a horse-drawn milk wagon that could become anything in my mind, like a spaceship or something.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

As a kid, I would keep telling my younger sister that I was a fairy who had come here to spend time with them. And I actually got to play one!

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

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

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

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

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

I have always written. I was one of those kids who would always fill exercise books with girls and telepathic ponies.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.