Malachy McCourt Quotes

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

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.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

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.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

When you are little, you will draw pictures for no reason.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

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.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

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

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

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.

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

There's a bit of the kid in me.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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

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