Quotes About Maturity

I must confess that I was not always the perfect boyfriend.

There's a confidence and sense of self that comes with age that I didn't anticipate.

I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

In your 40s, you shed those who bring you down and surround yourself with the most positive people you know.

I think, in this business, you grow up quickly because you are surrounded by adults; you are needing to stay present and stay cautious of what you are saying. I have been working since I was 10, but I also went to public high school, so I know how to handle all of it.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

I have a different perspective on the world than the way I looked at the world when I was 20. I was kind of naive. I'm a cancer survivor, been working in this industry for a time, and older with more opinions, more experience.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

I have matured as a man to understand where my suspicion of women comes from and how that has everything to do with me and nothing to do with them. I have to deal with that.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

I have a friend called James who is in his 40s and he's still not allowed to swear in front of his mum. I find it strange that you can't be yourself and be open with the one person who brought you into this world.

I don't really sweat the small stuff at all and I just feel like I'm more patient. It's probably just a combination of age and being through a bunch of stuff in my life.

I wouldn't call it bitter. I think it's just sweet. I've always believed my life seems like it's gotten better and better as each decade has gone by. So I don't see any I don't see any bitterness about it.