David Nicholls Quotes

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

I’ve aged, but I don’t think I’ve grown up.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

I knew who I was as a girl but I had to find who I was as a woman.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

I'm totally growing 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 think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

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

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

You gotta mature, you know.

I like to think I'm a very mature person.

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

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

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

I feel more mature than most people my age.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.