Quotes About Playfulness

I'd stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head... And when your forehead was full, show was over.

I am like a child when it comes to gizmos and gadgets.

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.

l'un avec pétulance, comme un jeune chien qui demande à jouer, l'autre avec mauvaise humeur, et le troisième avec ennui et indolence.

You could be a gambler. A thief, for all I know. Besides—" He captured her hand and stopped her from walking on, holding her in place. "Besides what, you insufferable prude?" "Prude, eh? Do you need another kiss to remind you what a prude I am?" "Don't you dare." "Then don't call me names." "You started it.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail. He laughed again. You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if you wish to understand the heart of a child. Children are good, you see. And they expect good.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.

Within all of us, there is a little child. Why not enjoy life?

I'm no prude. I like a witty innuendo, too.

I'd rather be a kid and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a woman's heart.

I was born in Coney Island. I like to think I fell out of the womb onto the fun park's giant Parachute Jump while eating a Nathan's hot dog.

Inevitably, when directors work with me on a set, they say, 'This isn't what I was expecting. I thought you were going to be very serious.' But I like to stay loose and have a good time and not take myself too seriously. I think, otherwise, you get in your own way.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.

I did a forward roll for the kids the other day, thinking it'd be a breeze like it was when I was six, and I had to lie flat for about 20 minutes afterwards - 'Leave mummy alone; she's feeling a bit dizzy.'

'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

The mind of a child is no less vagrant than his steps; it pursues the gossamer and flies from object to object, lawless and unconfined, and it is equally necessary to the development of his frame that his thoughts and his body should be free from fetters.