Billy Rose Quotes

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

Make believe I'm right.

[She] always knew he was a fiction but believed in him anyway.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

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.

Movies are different from real life.

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

I love to live in a magical place.