Tom Hiddleston Quotes

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

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

I remember pretending to be the characters in the movies when I was a little kid.

Like all children, I spent a lot of time looking for idols.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling totally in love with 'Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle' and dreaming of having his strength to leap into trees and throw mighty lions to the ground.

When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.

I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.

All of us want to be Superman when we grow up, fighting for truth and justice. That's part of what drives me as a writer.

As kids, we lived in this magical world and roamed free in the gardens. I was obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland.' My dad cut the hedges so that they started shorter and grew taller, so I could run up and down and feel like I was shrinking.

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.

I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.