Elizabeth Olsen Quotes

I liked to play dress-up.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

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

Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself.

I think everyone likes to play dress up from time to time.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.

I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders and have imaginary friends for years and other kids play and they have fun, but it's not quite as specific like that.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

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

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it's fun. It's almost better than chocolate ice cream.

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 think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'