Quotes About Maturity

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I sound like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King, but I honestly feel like the world is mature enough. And, for me, I just want to do good roles.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

Boys do what they want to do, Men do what they need to do.

I think I did a lot of really stupid stuff really quickly in my twenties and that sort of led me to want to sort of just relax a little bit. Relax a lot.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

I'm tired of playing little girls. I'm a woman now. I can't run around forever being the Little Miss Fix It who bursts into song. I want to get out of Hollywood and get a fresh approach.

Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.

At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.