Growth quotes

“- Emily 'Ma' Bear: There. Fozzie's stocking is hung by the mantle so Santa will bring him a present.
- Fozzie Bear: Aw, Ma, this is embarrassing. I mean, I'm not a cub anymore, I'm a grown bear.
- Emily 'Ma' Bear: Oh. Well, I'll take it down.
- Fozzie Bear: Oh no, I didn't say that.”
Jerry Nelson - Emily 'Ma' Bear
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear

- Ray Simms: Beano, you are definitely our strongest link to the past. In all the time I've known you man, spirtually, emotionally there's been like zero growth. You're what they call a "flat liner".
- David "Beano" Baggot: Well it's better than being a wanker!
Bill Nighy - Ray Simms
Timothy Spall - David "Beano" Baggot

“- Léon: You need some time to grow up a little.
- Mathilda: I finished growing up, Léon. I just get older.
- Léon: For me it's the opposite. I'm old enough. I need time to grow up.”
Jean Reno - Leon
Natalie Portman - Mathilda

“- Cecil Sweeney: What'll happen to me if you go?
- Moonie Pottie: You'll have to live your own life, I guess.
- Cecil Sweeney: You know that I'm in love with you?
- Moonie Pottie: Talk to me when you grow up!”
Andrew McCarthy - Cecil Sweeney
Liane Balaban - Moonie Pottie

“At Kent, we take bed wetters and we turn them into men. So grow-up, Barclay, it's time to forget these fantasies of killer dolls.”
Dakin Matthews - Colonel Cochrane

“- Taylor: He wants to be a man.
- Diane: Well, there are a lot of ways to be a man. I'm not sure wearing claw marks and warpaint is one of them.”

Will Sampson - Taylor
JoBeth Williams - Diane Freeling

“Take care of our boy, love him so much, and don't let him grow up to be like us promise?”

Gina Gershon - Sasha Hassler

“- Diane: When are you going to outgrow him, Charlie?
- Charlie: Outgrow him? I dunno Diane, Maybe WASP's outgrow people. I'm Italian. We outgrow pants, not people.”
Daryl Hannah - Diane
Mickey Rourke - Charlie

“Seed to tree. You've gotta work with me, here. Alright? Okay. Now, y-you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed.”

Dave Foley - Flik

“If growing up were so easy, would it take so long?”
Nehemiah Persoff - Papa Mousekiwitz

“What do I want to be when I grow up? Alive.”
Robin Williams - Jack Powell

“- Grasshopper: No-one is going to squoosh you, old boy. You're six feet long now.
- Earthworm: Bigger targets.”
Simon Callow - Grasshopper
David Thewlis - Earthworm

“So, Peter, you've become a pirate.”

Maggie Smith - Wendy Darling

“Don't know what I want to be when I grow up. Don't care. Just as long as I live near the beach and don't have to wear a tie. Then I'll be stylin’.”
Shane McDermott - Mitchell Goosen

“- Zalmie: I'm 17 years-old. When's my voice gonna change already?
- Louie: It's changin'. It's changin'.
- Zalmie: I know it's changin'. When's it gonna change for good?
- Louie: What's your rush?
- Zalmie: I don't wanna be a horse's ass forever.”

Jeffrey Lippa - Zalmie
Jerry Holland - Louie

“- Mickey: [reading Dennis a story] How can a train grow?
- Dennis Mitchell: He eats all his coal and gets plenty of sleep.
- Mickey: And what's the point of reading lies?
- Dennis Mitchell: It teaches kids to eat all their food, and go to bed when they're supposed to.”
Devin Ratray - Mickey
Mason Gamble - Dennis Mitchell

It's the end of the 20th century and we've reached this point where people are frightened, they are full of... fright! And besides I was too young to get married for years and I went directly from "too young" to "why aren't you married, what's wrong with you?". And well, there were those ten minutes in 1992 when I was exactly the right age and... (continue)(continue reading)

Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn - Gwen Moss

“I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.”
Victoria Tennant - Sara McDowel

“I'm an old man. I left my youth in the capitals of Europe.”

Wallace Ford - Ed Fitzpatrick

“The day we stop playing is the day we start getting old.”
Scatman Crothers - Mr. Bloom

“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
Stephen Rea - Fergus

“Growing up is so difficult, Anna. The disappointments and the heartbreaks, the frightening problems, the menaces and cruelties of the world.”

Maria Ouspenskaya - Madame von Eln

“- Wendy Darling: Peter, I can't come with you. I've forgotten how to fly. I'm old, Peter. Ever so much more than twenty. I grew up a long time ago.
- Young Peter Pan: No, no, no! You promised!
- Wendy Darling: I have children of my own now. They have children of their own. That's my grandchild, Moira, asleep in the bed.
- Peter Banning: When I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Maggie Smith - Wendy Darling
Ryan Francis - Young Peter Pan
Robin Williams - Peter Banning