Francesca Lia Block Quotes

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

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

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 was in character all the time when I was little.

The ability to play pretend is something that everyone has access to; you see little kids doing it.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

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

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

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

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 mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

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

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

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.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.

When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'

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.