James Spader Quotes

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

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 never play without my cape.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

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.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

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.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

I liked to play dress-up.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

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

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.

As a little girl, my dollhouse allowed me to imagine a big, perfect, grown-up life in which I'd be effortlessly domestic.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.