Rohinton Mistry Quotes

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!

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.

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.

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

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

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

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.

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

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

I would sit on the swing set and swing literally for two hours, just, like, imagining things. Like, what if this happened, and what if I was this guy?

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Make believe I'm right.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

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

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

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

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

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.

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.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

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

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

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