Quotes About Maturity

I appreciate when people give us some positive feedback, and in the past, when I was younger, I might have allowed it to get to my head and have a bit of an ego.

I'm living on this positive mind frame where I'm only attracting positive things. I'm controlling my energy, I'm eating right, I'm meditating, I'm in the gym, I'm doing all this stuff I'm supposed to be doing. I'm past that young, immature way of thinking. I just want to be great.

As I get older and mature and see the world, I think it's really rewarding to have people take inspiration - I hate the 'I' word - but I think a lot of disabled people really thank me for putting disability out there in a positive way.

I can honestly tell you, I can look at the things I did in high school, and I can see how they positively affect me today.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

I feel sometimes as though I've never grown up. And that's great, because it means there are still possibilities. Nothing's free. You pay for whatever you get. But that's OK, because you can't be cheated.

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.

At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

I have matured as a batsman. I am very happy that I have become more consistent.

Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.

I think The Row skews toward an older market - an educated consumer who's been shopping for years.

'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary.

I still listen to Radio 1. I never really matured or progressed to Radio 2 or even Radio 4, like most of my contemporaries.

I just felt like for everybody watching, my game is continuing to develop, continuing to grow. I just hope that's what people see.

I think people know what I do - they know I've been in the game for a minute, but you gotta continuously show that growth and show that you're bringing something.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

By the time my brother was 8, he was cooking breakfast and dinner for us. And I was 5.

Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.