Quvenzhane Wallis Quotes

I've never outgrown my childhood.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

It's so important and easy to be a kid at heart.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

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

Throughout my life, I've been gratified that I've been able to keep the child in me alive and inspire others.

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

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.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

I can run free here. I can go back to being a kid.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

There is a child in all of us.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old.

People create from different places. Some love to create from a tortured place, some from a joyful place. And when I feel like I'm a 5-year-old kid in my backyard playing pretend, that's when I'm happiest.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.