Quotes About Maturity

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

If you love Tarzan, you can read stories from the 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan,' where he's just a kid, all the way up until he has a son of his own and beyond. Same with 'Batman' - you can follow him from Gotham, as a kid, to 'Dark Knight,' as a cranky old weirdo. I really love that.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

As an actor I have always welcomed the opportunity to evolve.

Don't get me wrong, it's fun when you get cheers for being a little kid. But if I wanted to be babied, I would not have gone pro. I'm welcoming the idea that people will be thinking of me as Mary Cain the professional, not Mary Cain the high schooler.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

I felt as you get older, you're trying to find ways to improve your well-being, functioning, and energy level.

As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

I think that the story of a woman who is coming into her powers can really happen at any age.

I was hitting 40, and I realized I needed to just move on in life and do something practical.

My mum brought me up but it's hard for a woman to try to teach a son man things, so I've had to practically raise myself.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.