Debra Stephenson Quotes

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

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

Where children are, there is the golden age.

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

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 loved listening to laughter even as a little kid.

I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I'm such a kid at heart.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

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.

Children are wonderful!

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.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.