Quotes About Maturity

What the press hasn't realized is that I'm just a big kid showing off, and you've got to treat me like that. You know, you don't make big kids accountable.

Over time, you accumulate a lot of life material.

When you reach 50 you like to have a certain freedom because it's really the time you can show you achieved something.

If you raise a cool adult, that's an achievement.

It's not so much that I'd like to play a raunchy character, but I would like to play someone my own age. I'm always playing down, but I guess it's good because it means I've got a longer life in my acting career.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

I'm addicted to growth.

Every experience you can get adds to you; it really adds to the mental side of things, too.

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now.

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.

I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn't really like being an adolescent at all.

Even 31 sounds quite old to me, because my brain is probably still in a state of adolescent delinquency.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I think I am an adult.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

I was kind of advanced for my age, just because I started early, when I was maybe 6 or 7 years old. And my dad always had me playing with older groups.

I am getting even better with age aesthetically.

I have to grow up and be my own man and look after my own family and make sure that my wife and baby are comfortable with what I'm saying, so if that affects them, then it affects me.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.