James Acaster Quotes

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

I liked to play dress-up.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

There's something about a toy to a child where the relationship is real, where the kid is playing, and it's just really amazing.

Get creative with your friends and just make stuff because you never know where it can end up.

I'm really thankful for the time that I grew up in that we didn't have cell phones, and we made a lot of our own fun.

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it's little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it's all part of being a kid. It's something we all went through.

All children have creative power.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

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

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.

As a child, one of my defense mechanisms was to try to be funny. My mom tried to nurture that by putting me in acting class. But I got bored when we stopped pretending to be trees and actually had to work.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

I started writing stories as a child.

Let's make some funny pictures.

I always wanted my kids to like me and think I was funny, so I made up this story about a kid named Jake and his racecar that he had built from scratch, fully loaded with whatever fantastical gadget he or I wanted him to have at the moment. I loved making up the stories off the top of my head.

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.