Paul Rudd Quotes

When you're around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don't have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

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.

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.

I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

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

I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.

There is a child in every man, and that's why larger-than-life stories which have a fairly tale component will work.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

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

I never played with anything like toys.

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.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I was a huge fantasy geek growing up. I was the dungeon master in my D&D game.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

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

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

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

When you're six years old, you do not appreciate that you're living in the Alps. My sisters and I, all we wanted was to go to Disneyland.

When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.