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  • There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

  • That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

    Believe   Play   Way  
    Twitter post from Mar 29, 2017
  • No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to the heroic no to the anti-heroic no to trash imagery no to involvement of performer or spectator no to style no to camp no to seduction of spectator by the wiles of the performer no to eccentricity no to moving or being moved.

    Stars   Believe   Moving  
    Yvonne Rainer (1999). “A Woman Who--: Essays, Interviews, Scripts”, p.16, JHU Press
  • I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

    Believe   Men   Fire  
  • It's pretty awesome to see people dressed up in period clothing and running around on horses and in carriages and all that kind of thing. Part of the fun of making a period film is just that playfulness. It's just like make believe when you're a child except you get to do it for a real job.

    Running   Horse   Jobs  
    Source: collider.com
  • Regarding green screen, green screen is really like doing some stage work. You have to make believe that there is a window, make believe that something is there that is really not there and convince the audience. It's part of acting.

    Believe   Acting   Green  
    "Benicio del Toro Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 9, 2010.
  • If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the window, but if you become involved with the lives of the actors and forget that you are seeing mechanical devices on a huge screen - forget the make-believe - this is the job of the director to involve the audience with the actors.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

    Believe   Careers   Mask  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

    Real   Believe   Self  
    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

    Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center
  • As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

    Believe   People   Battle  
    "Eric Balfour Exclusive Interview DO NOT DISTURB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2011.
  • I think that movies are really fake; they should be fake. I don't think my way is any better than anybody else's way, but I know they're not real. I like to lean into the make-believe aspect of movies. That's why they're better than real life.

    Real   Believe   Thinking  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

    Girl   Believe   Book  
    EY Interview, hillsfreak.blogspot.com. March 13, 2012.
  • Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me.

    Believe   Moon   Sea  
    "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.
  • Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

    Joyce Meyer (2004). “Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year”, Hachette UK
  • Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

    Prayer   Believe   Farce  
  • It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today's children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.

    Marie Winn (1983). “Children Without Childhood”, New York : Pantheon Books
  • I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

  • Theatre is, at its roots, some very brave people mutually consenting to a make believe world, with nothing but language to rest on.

    Believe   Roots   People  
  • The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.

    Believe   Writing   Way  
  • Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

    Art   Believe   Eye  
    Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
  • There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

    Dream   Time   Believe  
  • I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

    Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers
  • We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

    Believe   Animal   Ideas  
  • It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

  • I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

    Believe   Magic   Wicked  
    "Drop dead gorgeous" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2008.
  • I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  • Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

    "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".
  • Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

  • Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.

    Believe   Hands   Crowds  
    "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.
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