Laurence Fishburne Quotes

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

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

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where a stream of water takes them.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.