Maturity quotes

“I came to coach basketball players, and you became students. I came to teach boys, and you became men.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Coach Ken Carter

“Maturity is really just another word for how much misery you'd swallow.”
Johnny Depp - Richard

“Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.”

Robin Williams - Alan Parrish

“I walked in the bathroom, and in the middle toilet right there... somebody didn't shit in the toilet, somebody shat on the toilet. They shat on the wall, they shat on the floor. I had to clean it up, man, but before that, for about 10 to 15 seconds man, I just stared at somebody's shit, man. To be totally honest with you, man, it was a really,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“- Mickey: I want you to chase this little chicken.
- Rocky Balboa: Hey yo, Mick, what do I got to chase a chicken for?
- Mickey: First, because I said so. And second, is because chicken-chasing is how we used to train back in the old days. If you can catch this thing, you can catch greased lighting.
- Rocky Balboa: Well, I'll do it if you say so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Burgess Meredith - Mickey
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

- Mitchell Goosen: Popeye, now there was a great man. Do you know why?
- Wiley: He never joined the Hairclub For Men?
- Mitchell Goosen: Wrong. Because his motto was: “I am what I am”. Do you think Popeye ever worried about what he wore just so he could get Olive Oil in the sack? I should say not, Dude. And do you know why?
- Wiley: He was... (continue)(continue reading)
Shane McDermott - Mitchell Goosen
Seth Green - Wiley

“Dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.”
Tim Curry - Darkness

“Responsible people don't go around getting their nipples twisted.”
Kurtwood Smith - Red Forman

“I am running away from my responsibilities. And it feels good.”
Steve Carrell

“- Anne Frank: I've never heard grownups quarrel before.
- Mr. Hans Van Daan: It's not a quarrel, it's a discussion. And I've never heard children so rude before.”
Millie Perkins - Anne Frank
Lou Jacobi - Mr. Hans Van Daan

“A grown man knows the world he lives in. For the moment, that world is Rome.”
Frank Thring - Pontius Pilate

“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”
Sally Hawkins

“Men! Mum's right. They stay kids all their fucking lives. And they end up heroes… or monsters. Either way they win. Women have to grow up.”
Susan Fleetwood - Rose

“- Carson: You're at a party and your date offers you an alcoholic drink, do you A, politely refuse and ask for a soft drink?
- Malaina: Or B, get knee walking drunk and let him go to third base.”
Phoebe Cates - Carson
Bridget Fonda - Melaina

“He's the nicest guy though, ask anyone, but the thing is, he's almost 40, looks like he's 30, thinks like he's 20, and acts like he's 10. He's fun to play board games with.”
Hillary Wolf - Laura Chartoff

“You wake up one day and you're an adult. And all the people you were just dreaming about have gone and changed. So you shake the sleep-dust from your eyes and you say, was it really so long ago that you and I sat together having fun?”
Michael Shannon - John Rosow

“- Po: Teaching? There's no way I'm ever gonna be like you!
- Shifu: I'm not trying to turn you into me; I'm trying to turn you into you.”

Jack Black - Po
Dustin Hoffman - Shifu

“Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.”
Laurence Olivier

“- Bob: Why don't you grow up?
- David: I am growing up!”
Matt Dillon - Bob
Max Perlich - David

“Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.”
Marlon Brando

“I lied. I do that sometimes. It's called being a grown-up!”

Garrett Hedlund - Hook

“I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility.”
Johnny Depp

“- Cassidy: But you can't go around having fun all the time. You have to be serious.
- Sutter: I am serious. I'm one hundred percent serious!
- Cassidy: About what?
- Sutter: About... not being serious!”
Brie Larson - Cassidy
Miles Teller - Sutter

- Patrick: You were a tremendous help.
- Lee Chandler: I didn't ask to sit down there.
- Patrick: You can't make small talk like every other grown-up in the world?
- Lee Chandler: No.
- Patrick: You can't talk about boring bullshit for half an hour? "Hey, how about those interest rates?" "Hey, I lost my Triple A card." Like everybody else?
- Lee... (continue)(continue reading)

Lucas Hedges - Patrick
Casey Affleck - Lee Chandler

“When you turn 30, your life and your world view change. I remember feeling relieved - it was like I was seeing things in a deeper way.”
Carrie-Anne Moss