Russell Howard Quotes

Children are funny.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

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

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Kids are funny.

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.

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.

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

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

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

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

I love the idea of things being strict and things being uniform. That's the reason why I surround each collection with humor or irony. I want to make sure that it's not too serious and that there is some element that throws it off because otherwise that would make it really boring. There's always a story that's somewhat fantastical.

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

I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!

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

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I always love writing about children.