15 Movie Quotes about Imagination
From the movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
“You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank
From the movie: The Diary of Anne Frank
“You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful!”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank
From the movie: Miracle on 34th Street
“- Kris Kringle: You know what the imagination is?
- Susan Walker: Oh, sure. That's when you see things, but they're not really there.
- Kris Kringle: Well, that can be caused by other things, too.”
Edmund Gwenn - Kris Kringle
Natalie Wood - Susan Walker
From the movie: All Is True
“I've lived so long in imaginary worlds, I think I've lost sight of what is real, of what is true.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - William Shakespeare
From the movie: And Then There Were None
“- Dr. Edward G. Armstrong: We all build islands of imagination. Represents escape. Half of my patients are sick because they're trying to escape reality.
- Judge Francis J. Quinncannon: And what's your answer?
- Dr. Edward G. Armstrong: I tell them fairytales. I build them islands of imagined security.”
Walter Huston - Dr. Edward G. Armstrong
Barry Fitzgerald - Judge Francis J. Quincannon
From the movie: The Notebook
“Remember that time in the park? Everything felt so real... but now I know that life is just an imagination, a pure imagination, and childhood dream shot to tears, due to the anxiety of tomorrow.”
Gena Rowlands - Allie Calhoun
From the movie: Beauty and the Beast
“- Gaston: [rudely flipping through Belle's book] How can you read this? There's no pictures!
- Belle: Well, some people use their imagination.”
Richard White - Gaston
Paige O'Hara - Belle
From the movie: Air America
“I've seen things here that I could never possibly have imagined, and I've got a pretty broad imagination.”
talking about the war
Mel Gibson - Gene
From the movie: Cashback
“There is an art to dealing with the boredom of an 8-hour shift.
An art to putting your mind somewhere else while the seconds slowly tick away.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis
From the movie: Pretty Woman
“When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would... I would pretend I was a princess... trapped in a tower by a wicked queen.”
Julia Roberts - Vivian Ward
From the movie: A Little Romance
“What are legends anyway but stories about ordinary people doing extraordinary things? Of course, it takes courage and imagination... not everybody has that.”
Laurence Olivier - Julius
From the movie: Saving Mr. Banks
“George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
Tom Hanks - Walt Disney
From the movie: Lock Up
“Your body has to be here, but your mind can be anywhere.”
Sylvester Stallone - Frank
From the movie: The Internship
“For whatever it's worth, your imagination is so wild, reality's gonna be a breeze, if not a letdown.”
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell
From the movie: Cyrano de Bergerac
“In a poets pocket you often find the product of an active imagination.”
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac
