Maturity Growth Quotes

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.

Every actress has to face the facts there are younger, more beautiful girls right behind you. Once you've gone beyond the vanity of the business, you'll take on the tough roles.

I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person.

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

When you are in your twenties you just think the races are what matter the most. When you are in your forties you really appreciate what you do every day.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

Once you realize you can make people laugh, it's a superpower. When you're really young, you don't know how to use that power, so I would just say the meanest things I could to get a laugh. I was so awful. I would make fun of kids who didn't deserve to get made fun of. I was just mean, when I was really young. You don't realize that you don't have to be mean to be funny. But, it was something that I was just able to grow into.

Earlier in my career, fans weren't a big consideration for me.

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

When I was young, I was sold on winning. I was always serious on the court. As I got older, I realized that it was just a basketball game. Just go out there and have fun.