Bob Monkhouse Quotes

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

You're never too old to grow up.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

I think aging and maturing is really interesting, and it's a shame that Americans are so panicky and paranoid about it.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

You do certain things in your twenties that are just not appropriate in your thirties and certainly not appropriate in your forties. Eventually you even the scales, and it's time to move on and become an adult and start working hard again and going to sleep a little bit earlier. Fortunately, I got a job to facilitate that transition.

When you're young - I probably still am at 23, though I don't feel so young anymore - you have your ups and downs.

The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.