Quotes About Maturity

A lot of people say I've got an old head on young shoulders and I think that's because I'd been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.

Most people say they talk to me and I sound older.

I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

The longer I have played, the perception of myself has changed. I conduct myself to other players a bit better.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

I have grown up now... with so much experience in life that I keep incorporating in my expression while performing.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

Si monsieur votre père daigne éjaculer quelquefois dans votre petite bouche, acceptez cela les yeux baissés, et comme un grand honneur dont vous n'êtes pas digne. Surtout n'allez pas ensuite vous en vanter comme une sotte à l'oreille de votre maman.

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

A su lado se sacude la espesura de la vejez

Life is about responsibility.

The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

What is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman's life, and thirty in a man's?

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.