Noel Fielding Quotes

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

I used to have imaginary friends.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

I remember as a kid, I was improvising and making little trophies out of different materials and going in front of the mirror, lifting the trophies and saying 'Nole was the champion!'

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

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

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.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I liked to play dress-up.

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

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Only children are weird. The only children I know, including myself, are either superweird or very talented and special or a mix of the two. I think there was always a certain independence and loneliness - I had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid.

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

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.

I've always wanted to play a coach in a movie, just to be the captain of anything in the pirate ship of my bathtub.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

Steampunk is not a group of children in a classroom, sitting quietly while the teacher reads a story; it's the kids at recess, playing a wild, endless game of pretend.