Quotes About Maturity

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

I don't think that youth should be glorified.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.

There's a beautiful thing about experience. There's a beautiful thing about veteran smarts, but there's also a beautiful thing about youth and the potential that creates down the road.

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I think you are taken more seriously as a young adult when you are on a film set and you are doing a job and people expect something from you. Is that losing my youth? Not at all. I had a fantastic childhood.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

You become sillier and more youthful as you get older, maybe, because you're over all your anxieties.

I think at the age of 30, you still have youthful aspects, but at the same time, you have gathered enough experience to know how to succeed in life. I like this mixture.

I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.