Raul Julia Quotes

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and started saying my lines. From then on, that was it. I knew there was something special about the theater for me, something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.

As a kid, the theatre always felt a bit like running away to join the circus.

The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And Agloe is a place where a paper creation became real. A dot on the map became a real place, more real than the people who created the dot could never have imagined. I thought maybe the paper cutout of a girl could start becoming real here also. And it seemed like a way to tell that paper girl who cared about popularity and clothes and everything else: 'You are going to the paper towns. And you are never coming back.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.

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.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.