Childlike Quotes

John Lennon was definitely one of my heroes. I think he always wrote from his heart. He was a very complicated individual, but there`s an honesty about his songwriting that I think makes it very powerful. Sometimes it`s very simplistic, childlike and naive; and that is what gives it some of its strength.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There`s still some silliness.

(On friend Joan Crawford): She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within the range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Acting is instant enjoyment and childlike. As an actor, Lord God, I can take an audience in a theatre and throw them in any direction. I can`t do that as a writer. Writing is painful, it`s lonely and you suffer and there`s no immediate feedback.

Acting itself is a very childlike thing. You`re asked to suspend reality and to play - and what better place than when you`re sitting there looking like the most weird villain imaginable? You have all these toys around you. It brings out the child in you much easier than when you`re standing around in a suit playing a cop.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it`s magical.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.