Nicole Richie Quotes

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've got some growing up to do.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

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.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.

College makes you grow up.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

You have to live through things. You can't have other people telling you to do that and do this. It's important to live through things.

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

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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.

Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.