Best Fantasy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.”

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Author:Alan Dean Foster

“It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.”

Play Would Be Able Fantasy Son Baseball Lifetime Athlete My Son Benches Professional Athlete

Author:Matthew Modine

“So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.”

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Author:Radha Mitchell

“I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.”

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Author:Richard Madden

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“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.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.”

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Author:Victoria Moran

“I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.”

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Author:Navid Negahban

“I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.”

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Author:Richard O'Brien

“It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre.”

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Author:Christopher Lambert

“Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.”

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Author:Anna Paquin

“It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.”

Faces Born Fantasy Eternal Extraordinary Extinction After Death

Author:Brian Perkins

“Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.”

Dream Fantasy Horror Your Dreams Nightmare

Author:Cassandra Peterson

“To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.”

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Author:Cassandra Peterson

“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.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“I do like fantasy films.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.”

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Author:Kelly Reilly

“I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction.”

Book Problem Names Fantasy Reader Harder Suspense Genre Typical No Problem Signing Plugs Booksellers

Author:James Rollins

“Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.”

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Author:Brandon Sanderson

“As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.”

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Author:Dario Argento

“I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!”

Thinking Fantasy Someday Museums Going To Work

Author:Anna Sui

“There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.”

People Bigs Fiction Fantasy Science Fiction

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.”

Knows Way Writing Fantasy Dwelling Psychiatrist Phobia

Author:Charles Beaumont

“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.”

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Author:R. A. Salvatore

“I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.”

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Author:Bruno Tonioli

“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.”

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Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.”

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Author:Nobuo Uematsu

“It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.”

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Author:Gemma Ward

“I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.”

Needs Mean Persons Fantasy Aim Photographer Portraits

Author:Tim Walker

“Fantasy isn't something I put into the pictures; I don't try and inject them with a sense of play. But it's about being an honest photographer; a photograph is as much of a mirror of the photographer as it is the subject.”

Trying Play Fantasy Subjects Honest Mirrors Photographer Photograph

Author:Tim Walker

“When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams.”

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Author:Tim Walker

“It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.”

Ifs Fiction Fantasy Raises Science Fiction Debt Collapse Ceilings Debt Ceiling

Author:Mike Lee

“I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.”

Kids Wanted Fantasy Pregnant Ecstatic Being Pregnant Nappies

Author:Elizabeth McGovern

“A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.”

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Author:James Mangold

“My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.”

Needs Two Book Stories Bigs Fantasy Advice Series Plot Trilogies Aspiring Writers

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.”

Mean Happens Care Turns Fantasy Imagine Tales Intensity Crank

Author:Richard K. Morgan

“What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Children Facts Stuff Fantasy Likes Labels Crossover

Author:Robin McKinley

“I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.”

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Author:China Mieville

“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”

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Author:Don McLean

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