Quotes About Maturity

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

I very rarely go back to do shows again. I'm done once I've learned the lessons I need to learn.

I could be playing high school until I'm, like, 30 or something, at the rate I'm growing.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

Everybody develops at different rates.

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.

You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

I'm 28, your career is a long time. We're not tennis players or football players. I'm just about reaching what should be my peak year.

Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

I can be pretty reactive, and I've learned over time to be less reactive: to stop and think before I make decisions.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

The more experience you have, the more confidence you get and the more ready you are.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.