Richard Madden Quotes

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

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

I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.

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 don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

I liked to play dress-up.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

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.

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.

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.

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.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

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

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

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?

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.