Childhood Maturity Quotes

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.

When I was 12, I wrote a legit song - about having my heart broken, of course, because I was 12 years old going on 40. I sang the song for my mom, and she asked, 'Where did you get that song?' I told her I wrote it, and she said, 'Really?' She looked at my grandparents and just said, 'Oh, boy.'

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity.

What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker.