Uninhibited Play Quotes

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

The biggest thing my dad taught me was to play without fear.

We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

If you play without the shackles and burdens, then you play like you did when you were a kid.

I owe a lot to playing on the street. And what was even better than playing on the street was playing football with my friends in the local graveyard. It was fantastic. We forgot what the time was and didn't even go home for our meals.

It sounds corny to say, but it was really inspiring seeing kids that were just living and connecting with people. That was something I really understood, the need and want for connection, and fun, and it not needing to be sympathetic, just sort of good fun.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

I think, a lot of time, when I'm making art, I'm trying to get into a state of childlike play, where I'm not self-conscious; I'm not worried about what the outcome is going to be. I'm just having fun.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

I really do not think about 'Oh, right now I have to defend those points and this title.' I just really want to enjoy playing on the court, in front of the fans.

I believe in finding somewhere you can express yourself, play without fear, play with everything you have. When you find that place, stay.

If you take the expectations off of what we're supposed to do and just play free, I think that allows you to play to the best of your ability.