Joe Manganiello Quotes

It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

Ghost has always been about make-believe.

I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

I liked to play dress-up.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

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.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

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

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

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

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.

I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.