Top 44 Make-Believe Quotes

My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.

Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe world isn’t dwarfed by truth? The question loomed large as I began reading ‘The Black Tower’, Louis Bayard’s third foray into historical fiction and fifth novel overall.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

Acting is make-believe. I never believe I’m the character; I want you to believe.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

Baseball players practice, runners practice, so how can you practice being funny? You get up onstage. You train as an improviser, playing make-believe, using the vernacular of improvisation, saying ‘yes and’ to other people’s ideas, making statements.

Can you explore real issues as a fake character? Yes – it’s called acting. Or fiction. But acting is not a method of engaging with the actual world, just as pretending to know what a character might eat does not a novel make – much less make that make-believe real.

Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.

That’s what acting is: really make-believe.

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It’s one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn’t want our make-believe to be exposed.

I really am so grateful to get to do what it is I love – build worlds. Most of my job is playing make-believe, getting to know the people in my head, and letting them help me tell their stories.

I like playing make-believe. And my brothers do it with me, so it’s fun. It’s almost better than chocolate ice cream.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.

I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you’re dead. You know, you’re out on the street corner. You think there’s no bus coming. You step out, you’re dead.

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you’re called on to do. You’re not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it’s still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there’s something really big going on.

It’s fun to do accents; it’s fun to do different periods – that’s why you become an actor. Because it’s fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It’s a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I’ve never been a private person.

Football is an elective. It’s a game. It’s make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it’s all make-believe, really.

The make-believe world of ‘The Black Tower’ succeeds by broadcasting larger truths that might otherwise elude us.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

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

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein’s monster, robots, Wolfman – all of this stuff was really popular in the ’50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That’s pretty fascinating to me.

My favorite thing about playing a vampire is the stunts. It’s just a new, fun thing to do. Especially as a girl, being able to be all dolled up in heels and little outfits and be able to kick boys’ butts, I think it’s a really fun, make-believe world to play.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it’s all make-believe.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it’s a wonderful business but it’s make-believe, you must remember that. That’s one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

It’s hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn’t start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

I have no problem telling people I have a great stunt double. I’m not that guy who’s like, ‘I do all my own stunts.’ Like, no, no, no – it’s make-believe, and I’m not in the mood to die. I’m not in the mood to get hurt. I have a wife and kids!

For me, art is make-believe. It’s enchantment. It’s a fable. I’m enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it’s serious, and art is serious, but I’m not going to rarefy it.

I don’t think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America’s saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party’s most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.

Our ‘realities’ are make-believe – whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.