Sadie Jones Quotes

Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Most people remember being 4 objectively, as if they're seeing a movie of a 4-year-old. But me, if you ask me to think about when I'm 4, I can feel myself being 4, and I am there, looking out through my 4-year-old eyes.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.