Fantasy Quotes
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So many people have asked me, 'What is it about fantasy football?' And I've never been able to put my finger on it. I can't explain it. It just is. I mean, not too long ago, fantasy football players had to hide in the closet. But sometime in the last five years or so, everybody started coming out. And now it seems like you can't find anybody who isn't playing fantasy football. (Quote by - Sean Baligian)
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. (Quote by - Emily Mortimer)
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. (Quote by - Terry Brooks)
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way. (Quote by - Octavia Butler)
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. (Quote by - Lynn Abbey)
What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!(Quote by - Isaac Mizrahi)
I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project. (Quote by - Harry Knowles)
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. (Quote by - Richard Eyre)
I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'. (Quote by - Terry Goodkind)
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. (Quote by - Alan Dean Foster )
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. (Quote by - Sarah Zettel )
Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. (Quote by - Diana Wynne Jones)
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination. (Quote by - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison)
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)
I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'(Quote by - Mariska Hargitay)
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today. (Quote by - R. A. Salvatore)
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration. (Quote by - Paracelsus)
In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy. (Quote by - Betty Hill)
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. (Quote by - Judith Krantz)
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. (Quote by - Manuel Puig)
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet. (Quote by - R. A. Salvatore)
I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever. (Quote by - Jonathan Carroll)
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it. (Quote by - Lance Henriksen)
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. (Quote by - Jennifer Connelly)
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away. (Quote by - Stewart Brand)
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. (Quote by - Jerry Pournelle)
Fantasy should be as close as possible to journalism. (Quote by - Dino Buzzati)
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. (Quote by - James Cameron)
Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well. (Quote by - Sarah Zettel)
I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth. (Quote by - Anita Desai)
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. (Quote by - Kevin J. Anderson)
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two. (Quote by - Sheri S. Tepper)
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own. (Quote by - David Eddings)
I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people. (Quote by - Lucinda Williams)
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four. (Quote by - Radha Mitchell)
I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy. (Quote by - Suzanne Vega)
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. (Quote by - Terry Goodkind)
I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy. (Quote by - Richard O'Brien)
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. (Quote by - Edward Albee)
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. (Quote by - Bernard Schubert)
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist. (Quote by - Rick Yune)
I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. (Quote by - Dorothy Hamill)
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks. (Quote by - Patty Duke)
We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic. (Quote by - C. Kilmer Myers)
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. (Quote by - Francisco de Goya)
Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience. (Quote by - Bryan Davis)
For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two years ago where they found out the people who play fantasy football actually are their season-ticket holders. So now we've turned a corner from, 'Is this gambling?' to the realization that, 'Hey, this a fun hobby played by a lot of our fans.' And for the most part, it's bragging rights -- not money -- that people are after in fantasy football. (Quote by - Greg Ambrosius)
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. (Quote by - Alan Dean Foster)
Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically - me and Nick - said what would we do, where would we head?(Quote by - Simon Pegg)
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. (Quote by - Geoffrey Rush)
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. (Quote by - Lynn Abbey)
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. (Quote by - Sarah Zettel)
A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. (Quote by - Warner LeRoy)
There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing. (Quote by - Sean Connery)
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
A lot of fantasy players feel now as though winning in their fantasy league is more important than what they will at times describe as their childlike loyalty to one team. (Quote by - Don Levy)
I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it. (Quote by - Patrick Troughton)
When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football. (Quote by - Don Levy)
'What do you fear my lady? A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond beyond recall or desire. (Quote by - J.R.R. Tolkien)
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty. (Quote by - Francisco Jose De Goya Y Lucientes)
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language. (Quote by - Harry Mathews)
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal. (Quote by - Mikhail Gorbachev)
I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be. (Quote by - Jennifer Garner)
I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young. (Quote by - Kim Elizabeth)
When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy. (Quote by - Alan Hansen)
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. (Quote by - Nanci Griffith)
We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home. (Quote by - Raul Grijalva)
If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig. (Quote by - Todd McFarlane)
It's my job, to create a fantasy. (Quote by - Anne Heche)
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. (Quote by - Dario Argento)
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. (Quote by - Octavia Butler)
In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous. (Quote by - Alicia Witt)
For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena. (Quote by - James Patterson)
Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing. (Quote by - Jay Mohr)
