Quotes About Playfulness

Children have a remarkable talent for not taking the adult world with the kind of respect we are so confident it ought to be given. To the irritation of authority figures of all sorts, children expend considerable energy in "clowning around." They refuse to appreciate the gravity of our monumental concerns, while we forget that if we were to become more like children our concerns might not be so monumental.

The great man is he that does not lose his child-heart.

To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.

I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually do.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

If you mess around with your mates, you get into rough and tumble then you remember you're in your mid-40s and you can't land the way you used to, so it's great fun.

Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.

My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.

Nothing is better than showing up twice a week, acting like a 12 year-old for two hours, and then going home.

I'm going to be exposed, aren't I? (Acheron) I don't know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don't want to go blind. (Savitar)

I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

The question is… How did a girl like Annabelle manage to talk a man like you into joining our silly little family party?" Annabelle smiled sweetly. "I promised he could tie me up afterward and spank me.

Thanks, but seriously . . ." She regarded him with earnest eyes and what she hoped was a semi-shy expression. "You're way too hot for me." "That just means I can warm you up faster." She

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

Tell me about Stackpole then... Like I am now, but smaller.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

Although my elephant is different than yours. Mine's bright purple and I like to lead him around on a leash and introduce him to people by name.

It's adult swim time and I'm diving in here at the shallow end.