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"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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"Reality is not enough for us, that's why we have invented art to create different realities!"

"Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere."

"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."

"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."

"Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point and lets us know where we want to end up. As we move toward our desired destination we chart the journey, creating a map. We need a map to guide us on our journey to love--starting with the place where we know what we mean when we speak of love."

"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."

"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."

"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."

"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."

"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."
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