Francesca Annis Quotes

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy. At home, do I have the full hair and makeup? No. But I might have the nice dress on.

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

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

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

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

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

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 have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.

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.

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 like to be prepared enough to be completely unprepared. I don't know if I make sense, but I have a fantasy of living someone else's life. And to do that perfectly, I need to prepare myself just as properly.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

I find that with fantasy, you lose yourself in it a lot. It's great to be able to go into a dark theater or turn off the lights in your house and just get sucked into this world. I remember watching Star Wars when I was a little kid when they did the re-release of all the originals. I couldn't even read yet but my uncle took me and he would read me the opening as the words were coming up on the screen. I just remember being so sucked into that and thinking, "I want to be Luke Skywalker."

My first experiences with fashion were dressing up. It was always about fantasy for me. Dressing up as characters . . . I always thought that's what clothes were - that they would make you into the person you wanted to be. I'm an actress, so I love to act, and I think that's one of the most important things - the thing that makes you feel like another person.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.