Tom Hardy Quotes

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

You gotta mature, you know.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

Sometimes you have to mature.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

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

Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.

When you are in your 20s and you're not married with kids, you're having fun. But when you're in your 30s and you're not married and don't have kids, you begin to develop a Peter Pan complex. As you grow older, you have more responsibilities and you have to step up to them.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.