Quotes About Maturity

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it's a lot more than just partying and turning up.

I'm actually excited about turning 60. I feel on top of my game.

I don't have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that's because I know I'm never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life!

I kept turning down roles because I knew I just wasn't ready for them.

Turning 40 didn't, as a number, scare me or throw me off at all.

People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.

Turning 30, life has definitely changed - it's changed for the better.

Sunderland was a turning point where I changed from a boy to a man. It was definitely the right thing for me to go on loan to another Premier League club. It helped me beyond words.

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

I'll start searching for that ideal partner when I turn 40. That will be a turning point in my life.

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father. It was a real turning point for me because it helped me mature - it made me think about being responsible because I wasn't the only one I had to think about.

When you're 65, you're surprised by what turns you on.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

Turns out I'm getting old.

History turns me on. I was terrible at it at in school, but as I get older, I get more and more into it.

I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.

By the time I started doing TV and film, I was in my forties, so I wasn't going to do the young up-and-comer.

A character in a TV series tends to grow and take shape as you go along.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties.