Scott Bakula Quotes

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I loved the world of imagination.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

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.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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

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

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

When I was about 8, I used to go into one of the rooms in the mansion, and I would open a magazine like the 'Ladies Home Journal,' and I would see these characters on the pages and then become them, talking back and forth.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.