Felicia Day Quotes

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I was an only child, and my mom threw me into some modeling classes to get me out of my shell.

Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

It was always theater for me. But part of that came out of the fact that I was always acting out as a kid. I was the kid who didn't play well with others.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Every day is a learning experience for city kids, and they are really sort of forced to interact with everyone around them and develop into social beings.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Even if a kid doesn't go into acting or the arts like I did, some kids need that environment to find themselves and find what they love to do.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I feel like I'm an actor that likes to have lots of points of connection.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.

I want to do performance that inspires people to be true to themselves and has tangible impact on the community. Not just because I want to be a role model - I just think it's the best way to honor the tradition of drag.

I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.

Ventriloquism kind of helped me find my voice. It's really helped me come out of my shell.

I really like connecting with kids.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.