James Duval Quotes

I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

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.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

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

I've written in the middle of a conversation or the grocery store or at another band's concert or in the last moments before falling asleep. It's pretty unpredictable. I think it's always flowing, and sometimes I'm not listening. There's no formula for when I'm going to be able to be a good listener to myself.

My portal to another world was fiction.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

I'm in my dream world.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

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

People really get myopic as they get older. We're not a culture that encourages dreaming or distraction. We're not ever good at just being.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I'm a daydreamer.