Nicolas Roeg Quotes

Kristen Stewart is kind of captivating; she can just stare at stuff and it works because I still want to watch it.

You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

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

What does not come across on paper for Donald Trump is how incredibly charismatic he is, his ability to connect with people. Because he has this bigger-than-life personality, you don't realize how personable he is.

I met David Croft. He was a man of few words. But he had great charisma.

George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He's annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, and super smart. So you just feel really inferior around him all the time. You end up feeling really bad about yourself, but you walk away feeling really great about George Clooney.

Angela Bettis - I can't say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

To a young heart everything is fun.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

Unless we can be like children, we can't be happy.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.