Richard E. Grant Quotes

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I love the smell of vanilla, but I didn't have perfumes growing up, so I wore vanilla extract.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

I never played with anything like toys.

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 can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

When you're a kid, you should be a kid.

I am forever living in my childhood.

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 remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

I have a childlike spirit.

The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.

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.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

As a little girl I loved the thought of playing dress-up and getting ready.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.