Play Quotes

“Play is the royal road to childhood.”

“Every boy is a little engineer at heart.”

“Play is the brain's favorite way of learning.”

“Life will become a game, or rather many games, but not a zero-sum game.”

“Playing is a phenomenon in which the laws of nature are constantly being tested.”

“The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.”

“Play is a voluntary activity or occupation executed within certain fixed limits of time and place, according to rules freely accepted but absolutely binding.”

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

“The best thing about being an actress is that I get to be a kid again.”

“Art is a game. Or it is nothing.”

“The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic.”

“The secret of turning work into play, as seems to have been known to Tom Sawyer, is to make it voluntary.”

“My work is just a game, a very serious game.”

“Play is the work of the child.”

“The life instinct, or sexual instinct, demands activity of a kind that, in the world of scarcity, is not productive of the necessities of life and therefore looks like play.”

“Play is the exultation of the possible.”

“Serious art is born from serious play.”

“The great thing about being an actor is that you can get to be a kid again.”

“I think the joy of acting is the joy of playing.”

“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”