Me Quotes

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

~ Brit Marling

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

~ Matthew Sweet

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

~ Tatiana Maslany

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

~ John Adams

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

~ Abel Ferrara

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

~ Terry Pratchett

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.

~ Terrence Mcnally

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

~ Zooey Deschanel

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

~ Salman Rushdie

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

~ Jan De Bont

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

~ Ryan Gosling

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

~ Eric Stonestreet

To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped off with the chicken running around. I wasn't sure if my imagination was running away with me or if it really happened. It really happened.

~ Michael Keaton

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

~ Robin Wright

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,' 'Hair,' 'Fame,' 'Annie,' all that stuff - that's where my little youthful imagination was.

~ Juliette Lewis

Acting is an imaginative exercise. It would be odd if you didn't try to identify with the roles you play, but I think I can differentiate between where my imagination is leading me and where I actually am.

~ John Hurt

For me, when I do my best acting, it's mainly imagination. Then I really have a lot of fun with it.

~ Michael Pena

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

~ Seamus Heaney

Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.

~ Janet Jackson

My imagination ran 24/7, and to me, every problem was a challenge to solve and new product to create. It wasn't until I started teaching that I realized that not everyone's head worked the same way.

~ Steve Blank

A lot of things that I write about have happened to people around me, if not necessarily to me or in the organizations I've worked in. Having said that, it's fiction and has a lot to do with my imagination and creativity.

~ Ravi Subramanian

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

~ Haruki Murakami

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

~ Vanessa Hudgens

I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

~ Orhan Pamuk

I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.

~ Phillipa Soo

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

~ Action Bronson

I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

~ W. Bruce Cameron

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

~ Daniel Tammet

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.

~ Julia Glass

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

~ Bela Lugosi

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

~ Toby Jones

Meeting Australian mountaineer and author Tim Macartney-Snape when I was 16 in 1994 had a big impact on me. His ascent of Everest from sea to summit captured my imagination.

~ Tim Cope

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

~ Uzo Aduba

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

~ Federico Fellini

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

~ Robertson Davies

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

~ Dave Attell

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

~ Julianna Baggott

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

~ Jennifer Gilmore