James M. Barrie Quotes

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

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

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

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.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

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!

The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

I'm not here now. This isn't happening. You're just visiting a dream of mine.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

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

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.