Elizabeth Wilson Quotes

I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like I was in the army, talking on the radio, and doing maneuvers. I dreamt a lot about performing in movies and living in fantasies.

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

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

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

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?

I love to fantasize still, as I did as a little boy. If I see a movie, I want to fantasize about what it's all about.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

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

I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts personally, and I think maybe that is sort of represented in what we do for a living, the fact that we make believe everything and we escape into these other characters for a living.

I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

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

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

I was in character all the time when I was little.

I've always loved movies and loved the idea of playing make-believe. That was my favorite game, growing up as a child, was make-believe, and to be able to do it as an adult is awesome.