Jai Courtney Quotes

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

I liked to play dress-up.

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

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

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.

Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.

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.

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 loved playing with Barbies - that's why I didn't stop!

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious.

In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy.

As a kid, I used to run around our garden waving a stick and pretending to be a million different people. That's why I became an actor, really.

I never played with anything like toys.

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

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.