Quotes About Maturity

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.

Life isn't about being perfect, it's about being perfected.

When you're young, you're still trying to find yourself coming into the league. I think Bron was trying to help me with that, but I was so stubborn back then.

When I was very young, it was all, 'Here's little Johnny,' and I got stuck with it, but I prefer John. There comes a time in a man's life when he shouldn't have a name ending in 'y'.

There's a grace period where being a mess is charming and interesting, and then I think when you hit around 27, it stops being charming and interesting, and it starts being kind of pathological, and you have to find a new way of life. Otherwise, you're going to be in a place where the rest of your peers have been moving on, and you're stuck.

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

Young and dumb is something you gotta go through, but you've got to be a student.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

James Remar is a student of life.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

I was studying at the Royal Academy of Arts, and I was playing the role of Dr. Ivan Chebutikin in Chekov's 'Three Sisters.' I was about 50 years too young for the part.

I started working out, eating a good diet, and just did everything I could that I thought would benefit me. I also started studying a lot harder in school. It matured me a remarkable amount and made me completely focused.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.