Charles Ray Quotes

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

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

I never played with anything like toys.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

'Peter and the Starcatcher' is the most amazing piece of theater I think I've ever seen. It made we want to be a kid again and made me want to pretend, which I do on a nightly basis.

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

I listen to kids play a lot.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

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.

As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.

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

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

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

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

You know the way that children play make-believe in the garden? I did that and I thought, 'This will do for life. Why would I want to do anything else?'

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

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.