John Lithgow Quotes

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

Secretly, I'm a 5-year-old.

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

I've never outgrown my childhood.

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

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of disbelief that you have as a child. It's harder as an adult.

The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.

When I get back on snow, it's almost like I travel back in time to that feeling I used to have. That youthful, 6-year-old, 'nothing else matters,' 'you're sort of the center of the universe' kind of a feeling.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

I'm really, basically, nine, and I've always been that. I've never, ever allowed the child within me to die.

As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

To me, kids are the greatest audience and the greatest critics in the world.

Sometimes when you watch children, you feel that they show emotions that you, as an adult, can relate to.

I think my inner child wants to take over the world.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.

I think I'm constantly surprised that adults can't deal with illogical things or thing that are weird or psychedelic. I've never really lost that.

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.