Emilia Wickstead Quotes

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

That's why I'm an actress - escaping into a world.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

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 learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

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

I've always felt more comfortable in fantasy. Fantasy has felt more real to me at times. Drawing was an immediate outlet for that: to create. It's been my ability to create my own world.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

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

I love pretending more than reality.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

I'm in my dream world.

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

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.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Reality doesn't interest me.

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