Quotes About Maturity

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.

I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.

By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.

I went to business school in my thirties.

There are a lot of men playing great tennis well into their thirties.

Maybe when you're 18, 19, 20, you could have a bit of a wobble if you're going on live TV and playing guitar. But in your thirties you've got to just grow up about it.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.

Thirty years on, I am no longer as certain about anything as I was at age 20. I now regret my support for the war in Iraq and kick myself for the naive expectation that freedom was destined to prevail.

For a thoroughbred to age is never a graceful process.

As a mature character artist I thoroughly enjoyed working with the enthusiastic, childlike Salman Khan.

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you're either an uber-loyalist babe, or you're a rebel. There isn't any grown-up room to be thoughtful. There isn't space in public debate for that.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I've already talked to my spirit animal. He's got nothing else to tell me. I'm 60, I've done it all. I'm totally over it.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.