Quotes About Maturity

My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

I used to be really afraid and anxious of taking on too much, and the older I'm getting, the more fearless I'm becoming. Life is so much more relaxed when you're like that.

I don't want to say, 'Yeah, I changed at 30,' because no, it was chronically the same. But I got more relaxed about things.

The older I get, the more relaxed I am.

I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.

'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

Second seasons are always better. In the first year, I felt a little bit of pressure. Maybe sometimes I didn't play naturally. I didn't feel relaxed on the pitch when I was ready to try something. It's complicated to explain.

I don't know, the older I get, the more complicated I think I get, which is a hindrance.

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.

I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

You know you're old when you're asked, 'Do you have hobbies?'

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

Instead of holding grudges, it's better to learn from the bad experiences.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I'm very grateful, but at the same time, I'm glad all this happened when I'm 36 instead of 26 because I - I'm just such a homebody, and I just want to write songs and make the best record that I can.

I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.

I have turned into a bit of a homebody as I've gotten older. I don't really like to leave the couch in Los Angeles, but when a job comes around that you feel you have to do, you get up and do it.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

I never had to run home and help anybody with their homework.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.