Quotes About Maturity

Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you're a grown-up, you'll understand. Jonah: I don't want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

I know that's not a popular notion—don't we frequently regard our elders as wise partially because they're gray and wrinkled?—but lately I've come to believe that some people are born with the capacity to become wise while others aren't, and in some people, wisdom seems to be evident even at a young age. My

It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. But you're a grown-up. Grown-ups get sad, too.

Maybe he suspected something, maybe he'd simply been around long enough to know that fairytales seldom came true

Every chapter in life helps you move forward.

I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to move on.

I had a season of U23s football and I played in almost every game. For me, at that time I needed to move on. I didn't need to play another year of U23s and it wouldn't have helped me.

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

The move into adult comedy wasn't so much moving away from 'The Wonder Years' as expanding myself as a director.

I've been around the league for a while. I know the business of the league. Some stuff, like my mom said, you let it roll off your back like water on a duck's back. You keep moving on.

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

As you get older and gain more experience, you're able to do multiple things. You don't necessarily have to focus so hard on your performance in order to have a good one.

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

I'm just going to make the music I love to make, and I'm going to mature with my music.

I think I still want to be a music director as a grown man.

I would say that as I've gotten older, I trust my intuition more; I allow myself more freedom both musically, creatively and my own life existentially.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.