Quotes About Maturity

A lot of kids, when they get to 18 or 19, they start getting flashy and forgetting about the real basics of being a professional footballer.

The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.

I'm a Christian, and I forgive people. That's the mature thing to do.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Who'd have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future relationships?

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

I've grown into a woman and formed my own opinions about the world around me.

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

Fortunately, I have always played younger than what I am.

I could have made a lot of bad decisions, and some I did, but fortunately, I learned from those mistakes, and once they happened, I never really made those mistakes again.

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

When we were younger, we fought, but that's what kids do, right?

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there.

Age is a frame of mind.

I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

I don't want to be forty-five and still a freshman.

As for my father, I developed a friendly equation with him once I grew up. He has seen 'BTC' and has loved it.

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.