Make believe I'm right.

Ghost has always been about make-believe.

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

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

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

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

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

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

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

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

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

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

At a young age, acting was so inspiring and exciting, because to me it was play - make-believe, pretend.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.

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 really easy sometimes to get comfortable on a set and get into the groove and think it's all make-believe so nothing bad can happen.

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.

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.

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!

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

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.

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.

More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes.

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 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.

I always had a dramatic flair. I'd like to dress up like a cowboy, play make-believe. But I didn't realize acting was something I had to do until I got to college.

We play make-believe and dress up for a living. One goes, one doesn't go, whatever. I don't understand how you can get bitter or jaded. We're just so lucky to get to do this.

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 live in a wonderful world of make-believe. A world of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A world of Winnie the Pooh and Edward Bear. Things like that. Wonderful things. Funny things.

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.

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.

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 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.

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