Pablo Picasso Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Everyone thinks you have to grow up to know who you are, but kids already know who we are. The world just beats it out of us.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

I had a real strong fantasy life as a kid. But then you grow up and think about real jobs.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.

I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

I never was a child.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel appreciative of the gifts you have until you're gone.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

Somehow, this child is gonna show me what to do, because I thought maybe I'll grow up by then, but no. I still just want to play around in my Crocs and tutus, so I don't know.

It's shocking when you start to grow up and realise that your parents had a life before you! But why would you? Sometimes you don't really have a need to.

Take in every moment. Don't try to grow up too quickly.