Elizabeth Debicki Quotes

As a kid, I spent an awful lot of time pretending I was somebody else. I think growing up in the 1980s wasn't very exciting so you kind of create this secret life of an alternate person. You pretend to be whatever you need to be that day, so you live in that dream world.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

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?

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I write because I have always been curious about what it would feel like to be someone else, in a different situation. Fiction is a wonderful way of exploring that.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

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.

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

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 think you're attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it's more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

I had a very happy childhood, but I still used my imagination as a leisure resort.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.