Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.