Suzanne Farrell Quotes

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

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

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

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

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

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 was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

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

I liked to play dress-up.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

I loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

I'm the youngest of three sisters. We were always performing plays for each other.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

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.

I grew up in the late '70s. We played outside all day. I think that's where I got the whole notion of being an actor, you know, stunt fighting with my friends.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't play with it the way I might with my Barbie dream house. Instead, I furnished it. I kept it pristine. I decorated the house for each season. I had jack-o'-lanterns in the fall and a Christmas tree with working lights in the winter.

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.