Quotes About Maturity

Over the years, during lazy daydreams, she'd sometimes allowed herself to fantasize about running into him. But in her thoughts, they'd still been kids. She couldn't imagine them relating to each other as adults. Whatever Shane sparked in her, she'd thought she'd outgrown. But they weren't who they used to be. They were better.

And then, for the first time ever, Shane ignored what he desperately wanted and made his first truly responsible decision.

Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. Teenage girls couldn't wait to be ruined.

No, but it's your reality now. Put on your big-boy pants and deal with it.

When you reach my age, you learn that there are some fights you simply cannot win.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you.

But when (as will inevitably happen) mature women are again seen as sexy, it's likely that the maxi and midi will make their triumphant return as sexy garments. Fashion

There's no reason to hide anything; there's just timeliness of age and what's appropriate.

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

I'm a kid, and a breakup is normal. I have to go through the emotions and feel it out.

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

In a way, I had such a normal life. But in another way, I saw things most kids don't see.

Normally I'm watching people become actors in the process of making the film. It's very important you have a lot of respect when you are dealing with young people. You are in charge of everything about the process. You're an adult and they're not.

When you're younger, you might make some shots you're not normally capable of, because you're more fluid, maybe stronger, maybe faster. As you get older, you learn not to take those crazy shots.

I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

I was not interested in films, but I was forced to act when I was just 14 or 15 years old. Now, I feel that that was not the right age to enter films. One should at least be 21 to enter the industry.

To be okay with not knowing is a sign of a mature person and a mature society.

As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

I've got more low notes than I had when I started.

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.