John Grant Quotes

It took me a long time to grow up.

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.

Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

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

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.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

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

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

I'm fascinated by the way early experiences haunt and revisit you, remain present in your life for decades and decades - they can even shape who you ultimately become.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

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 don't think I've grown up easily.

In a series of wonderful essays, Evan Handler gives himself up to us - warts and all. To our amusement and bemusement we share in his emotional growth as he struggles to mature. I not only laughed along with him but felt that I too had grown a little along the way. Who could ask for more?

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

People grow up by living.

You're learning things. As you get older, you're experiencing them. You learn about what it means to be sacrificial. Then, you get married or something like that and you think, "Oh, wow! This is the real deal."