Marilyn Monroe Quotes

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

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

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have a lot of fantasy.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

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.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

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

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

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

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

It's fun to be someone else.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.