Quotes About Playfulness

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child

These interreflecting themes, the prerequisites of creation, are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage, and trust. Creativity is a harmony of opposite tensions, as encapsulated in our opening idea of lila, or divine play.

Writing is a form of mischief.

Then I'm the King of the Cats!

She grabbed my left ball, so we left the ball and I balled her.

But all seriousness aside

and at first I couldn't tell if he liked it or not. It was only after I'd finished "Light My Fire" that he sort of yelped and wrestled me to the ground (translation: he liked it). But I pinned him first. (Grin.)

05/03/87 Calvin ties himself up and Hobbes takes off running. Calvin is trying to fly like a kite. He crashes to the ground. Calvin thinks they need a bit more wind. Again he tries. Again he crashes. Hobbes suggests Calvin might be too heavy. Calvin wonders what he can do to make himself lighter. Mom answers a phone call from Mrs. Carroll. There is a naked kid tied to a stuffed tiger is running through her yard.

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

I thought, 'If I ever get a new football building, I want a slide.' Now I go down it every day.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.

I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.

I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one who was like, 'Look at me!' - just trying to get their attention and being a goofball.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face.

If I had to come back in life, I'd come back as a dolphin... they're always smiling; they're always playing.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

Really just about the only remembrance I have from when I was very young is the way Daddy used to place me on the refrigerator and then say, 'Jump!' and I'd jump into his arms. It was so much fun for me that even when I got too large for it to happen, I still wanted to do it anyway!

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

I'm having so much fun getting to play around with a lot of different looks, a lot of different outfits, a lot of motifs.