Michael Jackson Quotes

I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

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.

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

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

We learn many things from children, always.

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

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

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

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

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.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

I've always tried to retain that childlike wonder.

Actors usually have a lot in common with kids.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!