Quotes About Maturity

Rule 2. Don't attack or insult. Don't even try to win.

Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

For me, as a pocket quarterback, there wasn't much adjustment as I got older.

My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Having kids certainly gets me to ask the question, 'Who is the adult here, and who is the kid?'

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.

This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

I think the main thing was me having a daughter. I just knew that I had to be a man, so I grew up real quick. Then I started caring about my music more, and I feel like that was the main change between 'Killer Instinct' and 'TRAPSOUL'. I was just like, 'I need to take this more serious and watch the things I say'.

My girls had to grow up quick because of everything we've been through.

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad.

This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.