Ben Carson Quotes

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Some people are boys longer than others.

As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, trying to make themselves appear like a cassanova. I'm surprised you haven't heard that, I really am.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.

For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

I've got some growing up to do.

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

Coming from Flint, I was really immature on the court and off the court.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

For me, there's a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.

I think all kids are rebellious. It's a part of growing up.