C. Day Lewis Quotes

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to.

I just like having fun. And, you know, sometimes I just like to present myself in that fun energy.

I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.

I always feel like a goofy little kid.

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

We are not here to laugh.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster.

Have a little fun. A few laughs.

That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.

By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.

When you start feeling silly, you start doing silly things.

After playing giggly and bubbly, it is fun to shriek and yell.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

Blend a little folly with thy worldly plans: it is delightful to give loose on a proper occasion.

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.

I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to have a good time.

I don't get to the global issues or anything like that. I am just trying to be silly.

I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.