Quotes About Maturity

No adult would have done what Bobby did -- but a child is of a different species. By adult standards, a child is not wholly sane.

She was suffering the first pang of maturity's burden, the knowledge of responsibility misused.

Confirmations, corroborations rather than disillusionment. At eighteen I was as much of a philosopher as I ever will be.

Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they've reached the age of discretion.

I was cursed or blessed with a prolonged adolescence; I arrived at some seeming maturity when I was past thirty. It was only in my forties that I really began to feel young. By then I was ready for it.

The honour of old age comes not from length of days, is not measured by number of years; 9 understanding – this is grey hairs, a blameless life – this is ripe old age.

and yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

In truth, a mature man who uses hairoil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. As a general rule, he can't amount to much in his totality.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.

If I was doing Eurovision 10 years ago I probably would have been swallowed by the grandeur of it but I feel like... I've been doing this for a while, I know what works for me and what doesn't.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They're still very much the same kids that I met many years ago. They've grown up and they are funny and wicked and naughty and bright, and I think as actors their work is just getting better and better. They've blossomed.

A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties.

I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'

I learned to drive when I was 35. I'm driving like an old lady and very close to the wheel. I don't take many risks, and when people yell at me I say 'sorry, sorry, sorry!' I don't have road rage yet.

When I was 26, 27 years old I was running a kitchen in New York, and I was a raving lunatic. The older you get, you figure out you don't need to do that. You realize at a certain point, there's a certain gravity to what you say and what you do. If that's not enough, all the yelling in the world is not going to matter.

He's always been tough on me, but I've had to figure out when he's being a coach and when he's being a dad. Once I figured that out, it was much easier. It's definitely tough, something that took years to figure out. Just knowing he was looking for what's best for me, not just yelling at me as a parent. It took maturity.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.