Growth quotes

“- Daryl Pearson: You know, your little girls have grown up.
- Wilma McClatchie: No, my little girls have grown out; it's not the same thing.”
Robert Culp - Daryl Pearson
Angie Dickinson - Wilma McClatchie

“We must all go through a rite of passage, and it must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark.”
Dee Snider - Capt. Howdy

“When children leave home, they forget.”
Mary Carr - Mrs. Morgan

“- Jay: You're back.
- Kay: No.
- Jay: Then how did you know that his head would grow back?
- Kay: It grows back?”

Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“It seems to me that Peter's trying to grow up too fast. I imagine he thinks that grown-ups don't hurt as deeply as children do when they lose someone.”

Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie

“I'll let you in on a little secret, Detweiller. Every adult you've ever known was a kid at sometime in his life.”
Dabney Coleman - Principal Peter Prickly

“- Paul's Dad: We don't have to go to Arsenal every time I'm in London, do we? I thought we'd be beyond that stage now.
- Young Paul: We'll never be beyond that stage.”
Neil Pearson - Paul's Dad
Luke Aikman - Young Paul

“- Max Goof: I'm not your little boy anymore, Dad! I've grown up! I've got my own life now!
- Goofy: I know that! I just wanted to be part of it. You're my son, Max. No matter how big you get, you'll always be my son.”
Jason Marsden - Max Goof
Bill Farmer - Goofy

“I'm getting married, you're still married and we just got busy.”

Sanaa Lathan - Sidney 'Syd' Shaw

“When he was a kid, Aldo must have wanted to be a suspect when he grew up.”
Steven Hill - Lt. Jacobs

- Gaby: Guys can be geeks, but it's different for girls. I'm gonna wind up wearing a hairnet and serving Jell-o in the cafeteria!
- "Mud": That won't happen, because a lot of girls start out... lumpy. But you'll get thinner, and then you'll start to grow... chests, and then you'll be going out with guys who hang me up by my underwear.
Melody Kay - Gaby Nowicki
Jonathan Jackson - Morris 'Mud' Himmel

“- Royal Tenenbaum: You can't raise boys to be scared of life. You gotta brew some recklessness into them.
- Etheline Tenenbaum: I think that's terrible advice.”
Gene Hackman - Royal Tenenbaum
Anjelica Huston - Etheline Tenenbaum

- Suzanne Vale: You don't know my mother.
- Lowell Kolchek: I don't know your mother, but I'll tell you something. She did it to you and her mother did it to her and back and back and back all the way to eve and at some point you just say, "fuck it, I start with me".

Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale
Gene Hackman - Lowell Kolchek

“- Disgust: Hey, guys? What's pub-er-ty?
- Joy: I don't know. It's probably not important.”
Mindy Kaling - Disgust
Amy Poehler - Joy

“Evidence of the ol' glazzies. Nothing up our sleeves. No magic, little Alex. A job for two who are now of job age, the police.”
James Marcus - Georgie

“They were sweet kids. Not mad dogs, like they turned out to be, tryin' to bite you.”

Rip Torn - Sheriff Hank Pearson

“- Tripp: Am I getting advice from my two loser buddies who still live at home?
- Ace: Actually, I own my home.
- Demo: What?
- Tripp: No, you don't.
- Ace: I bought it a couple of years ago from my mom. That way, she has a place to live and I don't get nailed on the inheritance tax.”
Matthew McConaughey - Tripp
Justin Bartha - Ace
Bradley Cooper - Demo

“No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.”
Chow Yun-Fat - Master Li Mu Bai

“Nowadays people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up the parents defined the child. And my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.”
Miriam Margolyes

“Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.”
Michael Madsen

“Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.”
Anjelica Huston

“To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.”
Lance Henriksen

“- Rex: Mr. Lotso, do toys here get played with every day?
- Lotso: All day long! Five days a week.
- Jessie: But what happens when the kids grow up?
- Lotso: When the kids get old, new ones come in. When they get old, new ones replace them. You'll never be outgrown, or neglected. Never abandoned or forgotten.”
Wallace Shawn - Rex
Ned Beatty - Lotso
Joan Cusack - Jessie

“Men are incapable of growth, change and progress. For men self improvement ends at toilet training.”
Gerard Butler - Mike Chadway

“- Anna: You can't be a kid your whole life, you're gonna have to grow up!
- Danny Costanzo: Why? I don't like grown-ups.”
Darlanne Fluegel - Anna Costanzo
Billy Crystal - Danny Costanzo