Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything but I wanted to be an actress.

My greatest strength as a child I realize now was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life ever?

I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

In my wildest imagination I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood in the poor rural community of Eufaula Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Children do not give up their innate imagination curiosity dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child he would grow up to be an eggplant.