Emily Browning Quotes

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

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.

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?

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

Some people just want to make up the funny things and play pretend.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

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.

It's fun to be someone else.

I loved the world of imagination.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.