Tim Schafer Quotes

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know.

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

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

I'm just a tiny person from a humdrum neighbourhood, so I grew up worshipping 'Bond' pictures and dreaming of a life bigger than my own.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

That's what I love about 'Doctor Who' - it takes you back to being the age you were when you first saw it.

I'm living a boyhood dream.

I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.

I'm looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially a dream board. It is a school binder that I had put magazine clippings on. It said, 'TV actress, fame, a picture of Halle Berry, a picture of Christina Aguilera.' I was obsessed with both of them.

You can almost convince yourself that you've accomplished things just by thinking about them. The alternative is to be more realistic. You don't necessarily regard the dreaming process as bad or an obstacle, but it's not realistic enough.