Tom Stoppard Quotes

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

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

I had to grow up very quickly.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm totally growing up.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

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 have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

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

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.