Growth quotes

“You're so cute. You're, like, at that age before guys become dicks.”

Alexa Demie - Estee

“I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.”
Donald Glover

“I don't think anybody can grow unless he really is accepted exactly as he is.”
Tom Hanks - Fred Rogers

“Boys have the darnedest way of growing up, Ballin. Almost when you're not looking.”
Rita Hayworth - Gilda

“- Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
- Mary Poppins: They always do.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady
Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins

“- Ossie: I don't want to grow up.
- Tito: Why?
- Ossie: I don't want to get old like O'Sheen.
- Tito: What?
- Ossie: I don't want to turn into dust.”
Ciarán Fitzgerald - Ossie
Rúaidhrí Conroy - Tito

“One day, when you're all grown up, and you have a real relationship, you'll realize your feelings for Nick were just a thing. Just a crush. In fact, I bet by the time school starts, you'll have completely forgotten all about him.”

Jennifer Rubin - Amy Maddik

“- Mike Teavee: Die! Die! Die!
- Mr. Teavee: Doesn't seem like they stay kids very long.”

Jordan Fry - Mike Teavee
Adam Godley - Mr. Teavee

“- Mother: Sybylla, I want to have a talk with you.
- Sybylla Melvyn: Talk away.
- Mother: You're a young woman now and - I have been thinking about this a great deal - we can't afford to keep you any longer.”
Julia Blake - Mother
Judy Davis - Sybylla Melvyn

“We didn't have MTV when I was growing up. So maybe it's the overstimulated times that we live in that causes young men to stick their... instruments in such... odd places. I knew a certain young men once who actually engaged in sexual congress with an apple pie, and he turned out just fine.”
Eugene Levy - Mr. Levenstein

“- Robbie Freeling: Why can't we get a TV, like everybody else.
- Steve Freeling: No! No, we can't get a TV.
- Robbie Freeling: Great! I'll just have to grow up retarded!
- Steve Freeling: Come on, Rob! Kids don't grow up retarder because of lack of television.”
Oliver Robins - Robbie Freeling
Craig T. Nelson - Steve Freeling

“- Brown Cesario: What happened to the kid who just loved music?
- Shane Gray: He grew up!
- Brown Cesario: Big whoop! Stop acting like it's all about you.”
Daniel Fathers - Brown Cesario
Joe Jonas - Shane Gray

“If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don't grow.”
Heath Ledger

“- Gabe: Change equals death!
- Judy: What kind of bullshit? That's just a bullshit line! Maybe you fool your twenty-year-old students into thinking that's some kind of an insight or something, but it means nothing! Change is what life is made of! Change - if you don't change, you don't grow, you just shrivel up!”
Woody Allen - Gabe Roth
Mia Farrow - Judy Roth

“You ought not killed my little brother, he should've had a chance to grow up. He would had fun some time.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Karl Childers

“Just because you grow up on the outside doesn't mean you want to stop having fun enjoying life.”

Jason Beghe - Peter McCallister

“- Gilbert: God, Arnie, you're getting so big. Pretty soon I ain't gonna be able to carry you no more.
- Arnie Grape: No, you're getting littler, Gilbert. You're getting littler, you're shrinking! You're shrinking, Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!”

Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape

“- Coach Ted Orion: You got two choices, Conway: take off the jersey right now or you don't play.
- Charlie Conway: You're breaking up the best thing any of us ever had.
- Coach Ted Orion: Well, it's time to grow up.
- Charlie Conway: Grow up? Like you, huh? A washed-up pro who has to show off to a bunch of kids. Geez, that's real grown up.”
Jeffrey Nordling - Coach Ted Orion
Joshua Carter Jackson - Charlie Conway

“Sooner or later, Nana, people have to grow up.”
Hans Conried - Mr. Darling

“Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.”
Bobby Cannavale

“Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.”
Natalie Wood

“For the first time in my life I've stopped thinking of myself as a child imitating an adult.”
Ben Stiller - Josh

- Goofy: This is yours.
- Max: No, Dad. This is for you. Read the inscription.
- Goofy: "I might not be your little boy anymore, but I'll always be your son."

Bill Farmer - Goofy
Jason Marsden - Max Goof

“- Religious Man: Son, you're at a turning point in your life.
- Sonny Burns: Then let me take the fucking turn myself!”
Jerry Panatieri - Religious Man
Jeremy Davies - Sonny Burns

“- Batman: It's time you learned what it means to be a man.
- Superman: Stay down! If I wanted it, you'd be dead already!”
Ben Affleck - Batman
Henry Cavill - Superman