Quotes About Maturity

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

I picture Generation X as young adults living in a state of perpetual adolescence.

There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.

I was very sexual from a very young age.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

I think it's perfectly fine and interesting to have someone get married at a young age and have kids at a young age.

I love student life, but I also loved, from a young age, being in a working environment where you are treated as an adult.

I had to believe in myself from quite a young age. And I had to grow up pretty early.

My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.

Experience is my biggest teacher in life. I lost my father at a very young age, that's what made me more mature.

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

Both my parents were actors and they struggled, so I was raised with that. Being raised in this industry from a young age definitely forces you to grow up a little faster than maybe the normal kid.

There's been a lot thrust on my shoulders at a very young age.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.

Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong?