Francois Arnaud Quotes

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I don't want to be carried out of a club wearing a tie-dye T-shirt and a cap on the wrong way around when I am 70, but I would like to settle down a bit. Maybe with a partner.

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!

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

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.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.