Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible but always on the cusp of becoming real.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework and my imagination can do the rest.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

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