Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

Some age, others mature.

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it?

We all have to grow up some time.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I'm not a girl anymore.

You've got to grow up sometime.

It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

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

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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

Do you want to continue being great at being in your twenties, or do you want to step up and graduate into adulthood?

I'm a big kid, you know?

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

I'm a big kid.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I'm totally growing up.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

One should mature over 20 years.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.