Quotes About Maturity

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

Everything in my life has happened very early, personally and professionally.

When I was about to turn 50, I went into a kind of personal revision and observed my own priorities and what led those priorities in my life. And many things that, in a way, were profound.

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

I've been progressing as a player and as a person.

I'm 34 years old, but I still feel like I'm progressing as an athlete.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

For us, our musical journey has just been a progression. We're not trying to grow up too fast or anything, and I'm saying that even coming from being married. For us, we're growing up with our audience.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

They usually say as you get older, you can't get better, but that's not true. I'm living proof.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

I was like, 'I can't do grime. That's for kids.' - I was 20 at the time, and I thought I was a gangsta, a proper rude boy.

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

I was still going out when I was younger - drinking - and I wasn't looking after myself properly.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I learned there's a big difference between juniors and the pros.

I don't really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it's physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where's your game at?

Any time you get guys who are super professional, we call them pros' pros.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.