Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

Our idea of fun wasn't going to Disney World. It was, you want to play basketball, go outside, and make a goal. You want to play baseball? Take the old broom, take the handle off, take a tennis ball that we found somewhere, and go play baseball. We were forced to create things.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

I liked to play dress-up.

As a child, I was always playing some generic child.

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

My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

There were no toys or games when I was younger, just a football.

I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.

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

In all honesty, I didn't love reading when I was a kid. I'd rather be running around in the woods or doing my best to scare the pants off all the children in the neighborhood by pretending my house was haunted or making them play Bloody Mary in the bathroom.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

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

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

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.