Quotes About Playfulness

It is always the silly things that remind me

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I've always tried to have fun when I go out and play basketball.

I still mess around and joke with my family and friends like I did when I was nine or 10. For me, nothing's changed. Sure, I play football, but I try to keep my life off the pitch as simple as possible.

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid and was always doing bits for my friends and family. I remember doing pratfalls on the playground in fourth grade for my friend and really hurting my hip.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

My mind jumbles things, reassembles them, and plays with words without even being asked.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

I had so much joy as a boy: middle child, lots of energy, big emotional life. I was a clown and still am.

I love the opportunity to clown.

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

I have enjoyed doing comedies the most because in real life, I don't take myself or anyone else too seriously!

If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

I enjoyed harassing tram conductors.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

Be sweet and honest always, but for God's sake don't eat my doughnuts!

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house.