Quotes About Maturity

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

Don't peak in high school.

I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

Sometimes guys peak early. They get drafted higher, and they make it to the NFL, and they don't have a lot of growth.

In terms of experience, I am a much more evolved person than I was at my peak as a star.

No one wants to be the person who peaked in high school!

I'm not one to look at age and say that I've peaked.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them.

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

In high school, I had a much easier time interacting with adults than with my peers.

I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.

People change, they grow.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

As I got older I started doing what I wanted. I enjoy my life now. Age helped; people change a lot between 17 and 30.

The older I get, the more I don't care what people think or what people say. I just do what moves me.

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.