Jason Segel Quotes

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

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.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

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.

The essence of the show is that SpongeBob is an innocent in a world of jaded characters. The rest is absurd packaging.

SpongeBob has these qualities that I aspire to. Sure, he's a little naive, maybe, but he's so optimistic and is able to put his love of his friends and family above everything else.