Robert Smith Quotes

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

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.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

It took me a long time to grow up.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

I'm totally growing up.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

You got to grow up and mature when you see you've got something going for real.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

As I'm getting older, I feel like maybe I need to grow up a bit.

College makes you grow up.

I act like a kid, and I feel like I need to grow up a little bit. A little bit. Not too much.

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

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

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

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.