Quotes About Maturity

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

It is essential to forgive. Otherwise it stunts the growth.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

You don't get old being stupid.

I had some problems in the past when I made some stupid mistakes and got some stupid cards, but I learned a lot from this, and I know now how to calm myself down.

When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.

When you're 14 and you're with your friends, you laugh about really stupid stuff, but as you get older, the laughter inside you dies. When you're older, you need a bit of help.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.

You can only be stupid when you're young.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in a red sports car.

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

My style has changed and evolved mainly because I've grown to have more confidence in myself.

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.

Mature roles full of substance the kind played by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - my favourite actors - is what I want to do.

As I've gotten older, I've become attracted to things that have substance.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

The truth is that every single relationship is very complex and full of contradictions; as you get into a more mature relationship, you realize that the contrasts are part of the fabric of every substantive relationship.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.