Walter Jon Williams Quotes

I feel like I have grown up.

If I'm not getting older and more mature at 31, then something's wrong.

I would go back to school after working on a movie, and it didn't feel I missed anything, like I had been away. I did mature pretty quickly, though, but I still sound pretty immature sometimes.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

People grow up by living.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

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

I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

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

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s.

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

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

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.