William Joyce Quotes

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

It's fun to be someone else.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

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.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in 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 all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for 'Radioactive,' I felt like I was a warrior, and for 'Daft Punk,' I felt like I was a space warrior.

I liked to pretend a lot. I thought I could be anything that I wanted.

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.

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.'

That's what I love about movies and TV: You can go anywhere any time and be whoever you want.

I actually enjoy the fantasy world quite a bit. You have no boundaries.

What year is it in your imagination?

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

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

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.