Quotes About Maturity

That was my goal, initially, to make sure the difference could be seen; to make sure I was maturing over time and applying it to every fight so that every fight, you get a better fighter, a more evolved fighter.

As you get older, your injuries don't come with an anecdote any more, they just come.

I had injuries - even when I was younger, I had problems with my back. I had to grow up very fast.

Ageing is something to celebrate. If you can avoid long-term debilitating injury and illness, it's something you have to embrace because the other choice is being dead. So embrace it, grow with it. And that's what I try and do.

I want a man, but I want a man that also wants to embrace his inner child.

Even a good batsman requires a year or so in test cricket to settle down and play long innings.

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

There's innocence in a young mind, say 18 or 21, writing a script. But we have to acknowledge that they have to open up to life's experiences to be able to add those layers of depth into the script.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I think when you are 17 you are very innocent.

People say 53 is too old to be a dad, but I dont think so. Its the input you have that counts, and youre more experienced and worldly-wise.

We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

I think everybody goes through insecurities when they're younger, and everybody has to grow into their body.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

When I was young, I was very blessed to have this insight that my best work would be when I was an older actress. I just always knew that as a young actress.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

The Sanders Institute will not be taking any potshots at people.

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager. I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.