I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.
It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.
In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.
We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —
When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.
