Quotes About Maturity

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

I have matured in my shot selection but will not discard my style. I don't believe in wasting balls.

I've been in the industry for 17 years. I am over that phase of wanting my first watch, car etc.

I would recommend 'Lesson Of The Evil' to be given as a DVD gift on a child's 15th birthday. In Japan, children under 15 are not allowed to watch it. Plus, 'Lesson Of The Evil' is one film where the older you get, the more you will be able to understand and enjoy the film.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.

I do like watches. I like the sophistication of it all. Like the whole thing behind collecting watches is very grown man-esque, so it makes me feel more an adult.

I'm gonna be 20 in five months. I'm an adult, but I understand that there are nine-year-olds watching my every move, so I try, at least in a public, to be as good of a role model as I can.

I kind of grew up watching R-rated movies and more adult content because that's where all the best performances are.

I definitely watch the older guys. I'm always watching; that's how I learn.

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.

People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.