Ben Barnes Quotes

And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.

I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Movies are different from real life.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world.

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

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.