James May Quotes

When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

I never played with anything like toys.

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

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

You often hear this about directors, how it's like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box of toys that a kid could possibly have. The best directors look like a kid having more fun than you're supposed to have.

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

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side.

Art is about going a little nuts... Kids do art for fun. It's playing.

I liked to play dress-up.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

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

My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'

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

As a kid, I liked building a lot of Legos and built houses and did some fun stuff with that.

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved dressing up.

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother's office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.