Andy Kaufman Quotes

I loved the world of imagination.

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.

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.

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

We all live best in our imaginations.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disappear and become formless. I lived in a very imaginary world. I loved poetry and wrote my first novel when I was 9. It was about a little girl and the people she met in the woods.

I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I have a lot of fantasy.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

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

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

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

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.