Hassan Nasrallah Quotes

Actually, Keke is my nickname. When I was little, my sister was about four years old, and she had an imaginary friend named Keke. And she wanted my name to be Keke.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

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.'

Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

I love Westerns and I remember as a kid climbing up on the couch and make it into a saddle and shoot guns and fall off. I would lay there after my death and my mom would tell me to eat lunch and I'd say, 'I'm still dead, Mom!' I was Method, even then.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

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

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

I would ask my mum to feed my dolls and make sure they were tucked in when I went to school.

When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.

As a kid, I would keep telling my younger sister that I was a fairy who had come here to spend time with them. And I actually got to play one!

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

The beginning of my love for football goes back to when I was seven years old. I was spending time with my grandmother, Caletha Vick. I never knew anything about the game until one Sunday afternoon when she turned on the television because the Redskins were playing. They were my Uncle Casey's favorite team-and my grandmother's favorite too. After watching the game with them, I was hooked.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness.

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Chasing dragons with plastic swords, Jack Off Jimmy everybody wants more.