Ugo Betti Quotes

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

There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.

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

Ghost has always been about make-believe.

I love pretending more than reality.

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.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

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

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

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.

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.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

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 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.

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

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

I never play without my cape.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

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 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.

I liked to play dress-up.