Derren Brown Quotes

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know? It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy.

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

I just want my kids to have the space of childhood to explore themselves as fully as possible.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.

A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'

I was brought up with an incredible amount of freedom and creativity.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.

I just like doing things from my own head.