Quotes About Playfulness

His pleasures, like boys playing in a school yard, had so thoroughly trampled on his heart that nothing green would grow there.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

She was so young that love was still a game to her. . . . She was being neither fair nor clever, but Babette was only nineteen years old.

Or maybe it's a ploy to get more sex." She gave him a look that curled his chopsticks. "Maybe it's working," she said. "Maybe I'll slip into something more comfortable," he said. "Not that Batman mask again." "Aw, c'mon, you can wear the utility belt." She thought about it. "Okay, but no stopping in the middle and shouting, 'Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel.' 

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

Despite being quite a shy kid, I was in my element with my mates. I definitely wasn't shy then. We had a lot of fun, running around town getting into mischief.

I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.

When I was 8, my favorite toy was a stapler. My brother was afraid of me.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

A studio allows you to indulge your untidiness and your penchant for toys and curiosities that really wouldn't work in a grown-up house.

I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

Trixie is like a hyper-feminine child's toy who has it all. I love looking like I'm from Toys 'R Us but serving off-color comedy.

Oh, the fun we two have together.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

I call it... the hot dog tree, because... it's a hot dog tree.