Growth quotes

“- Simon: I just wish I could have seen him grow up, you know.
- Terry Rapson: The important thing is he will grow up.”

Adrian Lester - Simon
Sir Ian Holm - Terry Rapson

I'd hold you up to say to your mother, "This kid's gonna be the best kid in the world. This kid's gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew". And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day was like a privilige.

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“Sometimes it hurts to grow.”
Vince Vaughn - Fred Claus

“I'm 30 years old. I'm almost a grown man.”
Harland Williams - Fred Z. Randall

“Allison: The world's a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it.”
Zooey Deschanel - Allison

“The Land of the Dolls is where you all belong. But I want to grow up. There's a million things I want to do. People to meet, worlds to explore. I've always wanted to dance in the ballet. Nutcracker, I do love you, but I can't stay in the Land of the Dolls forever.”
Megan Follows - Clara

“There isn't anything that I've wanted for eighteen years, 'cause I was a kid eighteen years ago. And if I did still want the same things I'd think I'd gone wrong somewhere, because actually I don't want to marry David Cassidy, I don't want bigger tits, I don't want to do better on my mock-Os. I've stopped worrying about that kind of thing and...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ruth Gemmell - Sarah Hughes

“Maybe what I'm saying is, is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, I mean, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was, uh, whacked with insecurity, you know? Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Maxine: It's really quite something to see you all grown-up like this, Enid. I'd love to know what you're doing now. I can't help but feel I had some small part in how you turned out. What are you studying? You were always such a smart little girl.
- Enid: I'm taking a remedial high school art class for fuck-ups and retards.”
Teri Garr - Maxine
Thora Birch - Enid

“It was not my intention to do this in front of you. For that I'm sorry. But you can take my word for it, your mother had it comin'. When you grow up, if you still feel raw about it, I'll be waiting.”

Uma Thurman - The Bride

“- Danny: Can't we watch 'SpongeBob'? You used to like it.
- Walter: Times change.”
Jonah Bobo - Danny
Josh Hutcherson - Walter

“- Louise Watson: My Daddy says that I'm pretty and when I grow up I'm going to be a beautiful lady.
- Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan): No. You're going to be an ugly lady. You'll probably be fat and work as a cashier and no one is going to want to marry you.”
Elizabeth Pritchard - Louise Watson
Earl Pastko - Mr. Skin (a.k.a. Satan)

She said there are four stages of consciousness development: stage one is when you're like a kid, everything is new, nothing really bothers ya, you're not self conscious but you're little; stage two is the existential stage when you like become aware of your own existence, you look around, everything seems hopeless. You're like "What's the point... (continue)(continue reading)

Steve Zahn - Freak

“What I heard then was the melody of children at play, nothing but that. And I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that chorus.”
Jeremy Irons - Humbert Humbert

“- Veal Chop: Are you psyched to become a man?
- Big Fat Bernie Gayle: I don't know.”
Paul Giamatti - Veal Chop
Michael Lerner - Big Fat Bernie Gayle

“- Brad Crane: General, if you use that, nothing will grow out there for the next ten years!
- General Slater: Why worry about shaving when somebody's going to cut your head off!”

Sir Michael Caine - Brad Crane
Richard Widmark - General Slater

“- Boris Pochenko: I was ten. My father told me I could eat only what I killed myself. All I had was two sticks and a butter knife, but I learned to be a man that day.
- Joy Miller: Oh, what a sweet story.”

Timothy Dalton - Boris Pochenko
Fran Drescher - Joy Miller

“- Derek: It's my fault. I just can't commit to anything in my life.
- Gwyn Marcus: Why do you assume that it's you? Maybe I have a fear of commitment, you know? Maybe I have the Peter Pan syndrome?”

Donal Logue - Derek
Sarah Jessica Parker - Gwyn

“I have grown so much since then. I can't hardly believe it's me. I am a beach person and a night person. I'm really sorry for everybody who doesn't live in California, because we got it all, the mountains, the sun. And, like, there's no humidity, it really blows me away.”
Monique Gabrielle - Taryn Steele

- "Mud": How could you invite her over?! She's going to find out!
- Dennis Van Welker: Mud, in a couple of years, two things will happen. One, you'll grow a ridiculous mustache that looks fruit mold on your upper lip. Two, you'll suddenly understand why men invite charming, attractive women to dinner.
Jonathan Jackson - Morris 'Mud' Himmel
Chris Lloyd - Dennis Van Welker

“- Data: My operation depends on specifications that do not change. I will never know the experience of growing up or tripping over my own feet.
- Artim: But you've never had adults telling you what to do all the time, or bedtimes, or having to eat food you don't like.
- Data: I would gladly accept the requirement of a bedtime in exchange for...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brent Spiner - Data
Michael Welch - Artim

“Young boys should never be sent to bed, they always wake up a day older.”
Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie

“At 13 I knew everything. Senility set in sometime after that.”

Harvey Forbes Fierstein - Arnold Beckoff

“- Martin Bells: Let's grow old together.
- James: Let's get older.
- Martin Bells: Now, there's a challenge.”
Ewan McGregor - Martin Bells
Josh Brolin - James

“Maybe there's a big bit of you that's gone missing somewhere, maybe everyone should want something they've always wanted.”

Colin Firth - Paul Ashworth