Dennis Farina Quotes

It's all make believe, isn't it?

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

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

What people don't realize is that this is the entertainment business.

I love pretending more than reality.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

It's also show business. It's not "show fun friends".

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

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.

Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

Reality doesn't interest me.

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

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.