Quotes About Imagination

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

If you pick up a copy of 'A Better World,' you'll lose those last five pounds while saving a baby seal under a rainbow. I kid. It'll be ten pounds.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

I watched a little 'Beyond the Black Rainbow.'

We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.

I like to live in a world of unicorns and rainbows where I don't pay attention to anything unless it's positive.

The closest encounter I had with films in my childhood was sitting on the lap of my father at a shooting set, and he would say 'rain,' and it started raining, and then he would say 'song,' and people started dancing. I thought I was sitting on God's lap.

My grandmother would talk about having bananas at teatime and carrying palm fronds when the monsoon rains came, and I accepted all of those stories because they were like poetry.

My mama used to tell us ghost stories in the evening on rainy days.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Libraries raised me.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

I was raised to pretend.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and out.

Ralph Lauren is about creating stories, creating concepts that consumers want to live in. We are about creating dreams.

What we've done now sits with those films that inspired me as a kid, and I hope there is a kid like myself today who is watching 'Wreck-It Ralph,' and he or she is inspired the way I was inspired when I was 5 years old, and now they'll pursue this crazy dream.

When you enter a Ralph Lauren store, it's almost cinematic, as though you're walking through someone's home.

My mom made me a Shawn Michaels costume when I was a kid. I wore it every day and ran around the house dancing like him.

I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

When I write songs, it's very random. I get influenced by the most random things! Sometimes it just comes to me in my sleep or just hanging out in a restaurant or something. Music just comes to me, and I'll start writing from there.