Quotes About Maturity

when you've been in this world for thirty years and had to make your way on your own, as has been my lot, you get hardened to surprises and don't take them too seriously.

The road is endless, there are no shortcuts and no detours, and yet everyone brings to it their own childish haste.

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.

LT was just a wilder person. I don't go that route no more.

I think a handful of the roles that I've gotten to play are characters whom I've lived that are like younger versions of me but who are maybe more naive and a little bit wilder than when I was. And I've gotten to play 16 and 17 when I was a little bit older, so I got to pull from experience.

School is supposed to civilise us, to tame our wilder instincts and teach us how to be more sensible, more knowledgeable, and cleverer.

The older I get, the more I am willing to sacrifice myself for the team to win.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you'll either win or lose. Until that happens, you're caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

When I was a kid, I would mess around on the streets with my mates, winding people up and making them angry. It got to the point where someone called the cops, and we had to run away. But to be honest, now I am a calm guy.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

Suge is more mature than Dre, believe it or not. He came from a married household. He knew what love was. Dre may have missed that window.

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.

I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.

Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.

Wine gets better with time. So does art.