Scottie Pippen Quotes

It took me a long time to grow 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.

It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity.

I don't think I've grown up easily.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

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.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

I've lived a lot in the last 12 years or however long its been since Boy Meets World. I have a lot more to draw upon in playing Randy than I did playing Frankie. Although, I did have a lot of fun playing that role.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

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

Every experience makes you a man.

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

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

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

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

I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.

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

You don't become a real man until you're 35 or 40.