Helen Hayes Quotes

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.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.

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

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

It took me a long time to grow up.

We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.

College makes you grow up.

The things that have happened for me, to me, have helped me grow up. Especially the passing of my father. That was something that took me to another level of growing and maturing. That's whan I started to be more of a man.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.

Every teenager, I think, thinks it's the end of the world whenever anything happens, and it's not. You'll get through it. Life will be much more interesting and will certainly be broader when you're older.

As a person, you like to see young men mature.

People grow up by living.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm totally growing up.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

You've got to grow up sometime.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.