Adam F. Goldberg Quotes

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

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

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

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.

As a kid, I would keep telling my younger sister that I was a fairy who had come here to spend time with them. And I actually got to play one!

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

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

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

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.

When we were kids, our parents would let us play outside all day, and there was a horse-drawn milk wagon that could become anything in my mind, like a spaceship or something.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.

I used to have imaginary friends.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

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 like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people.

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.