John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

If you've never been 40, you don't understand how it feels.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

Getting into your 30s, you don't feel the same as in your early 20s.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

I hit my thirties and felt I had to start being profound.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

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!

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

One should mature over 20 years.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I was so young when the Killers started. I was 21. I'm proud of those songs, but there's no way I would write 'Somebody Told Me,' as I get older. Especially after having kids.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.