Laura Linney Quotes

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn't necessarily grow old with you.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.

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

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

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.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

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

I like fantasy. I've always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.