Quotes About Maturity

I'm a responsible soul. But anyone who has the chance to spend time with me can see I'm still 22 years old. I love talking about clothes and guys and shoes and makeup. Plus, I'm obsessed with anything Hello Kitty!

I got drafted at 19. I've got millions of dollars in my pocket, I could have lost my damn mind. I don't see how you could consider me immature.

Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are 12, you might when you are 13.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

I'm at an age where crying is easier for me now. I like it. I can cry at a poignant commercial; I can cry at a - this is a running joke in my house, but... a good 'Star-Spangled Banner' can make me cry. I'm not kidding.

We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

As I get older, I have a clearer sense of what's important to me.

As I get older I'm seeing the game clearer.

The more mature you get and the more you understand about life, your picture gets clearer, the focus gets clear.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

My head was in the clouds after 'Bobby,' but my struggle had only begun because at the age of 21, I had become a hero. But then I had realized that I have to keep my feet on ground.

I was a class clown, but I'm not a bully.

I feel very settled. I'm not running in and out of clubs at 5 A.M. anymore.