Joan Fontaine Quotes

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.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I went to a performance of 'The Crucible' at the Guthrie when I was a sophomore in high school, and I knew right away that that's what I wanted to do.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

When I wrote 'The Shadow Thief,' I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'

I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my 'thing' is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.