Maturity quotes

“What I see here is just a bunch of grown men whose biggest decision in life is 'sleeveless or... uh... sleeveless? Do I shit behind the rock or over there by that bush?' Grown men... this is pathetic!”
Tim Allen - Doug Madsen

“- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Don't talk to me as if I were a child!
- Eleanor Roosevelt: How am I supposed to talk to you?
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Like I was!”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Cynthia Nixon - Eleanor Roosevelt

“- Clare Lipkin: Thirty-five years old and still bulimic.
- Dr. Mo Van De Kamp: Thirty-five?”

Jacqueline Bisset - Clare Lipkin
Paul Bartel - Dr. Mo Van De Kamp

“Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together and of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.”
Winona Ryder - Finn

“- 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

“Everyone's tellin' me that I've gotta move on, I don't see what's so great about bein' an adult. Are you happy?”
Miles Teller - Sutter

“If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.”
Juan Antonio Bayona

“Go a boy and come back a man.”

Gordon Tootoosis - Ben

“You think grown-ups have it all figured out? That's just a hustle, kid. Grown-ups are making it up as they go along, just like you. You remember that, and you'll do fine.”

John Goodman - Lawrence Woolsey

“- Barbara Land: Do you have to drink in front of me?
- Art Land: You're an adult. Cope.”

Annette Bening - Barbara Land
Jack Nicholson - Art Land

“It's all right. I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?”
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.”
Mia Wasikowska - India Stoker

“When you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“I may be young but, Doc, I can tell you that I'm very immature.”
Jason Lee - Skip Skipperton

“They can do anything they want to do, can't they? They can tell us anything, or not tell us anything, and we can't do anything, or say anything! We haven't got one single lousy human right!”

Trini Alvarado - Franny Philips

“- Tibby: How old are you, anyway? 10?
- Bailey: I'm 12!
- Tibby: Same difference. - Bailey: No, when I was 10, I didn't have an iPod.
- Tibby: You're so cool. And what do you listen to on there, teletubbies hit parade?”
Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
Jenna Boyd - Bailey

“- Pete: Don't talk to me about responsibilities. I have a life. I have a family. I can't afford to sit in my apartment getting high, jerking off, and then going to Tommy's Chili Burgers at three o'clock in the morning.
- Ronnie: That's not even the order that happens in!”
Paul Rudd - Pete
Chris O'Dowd - Ronnie

“Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.”
Lennie Loftin - Glen Hollander

“- Mac MacGuff: Where you been?
- Juno MacGuff: Oh, just out dealing with things way beyond my maturity level.”
J. K. Simmons - Mac MacGuff
Ellen Page - Juno MacGuff

“Independence is not a toy for children to play with, but the privilege of a fully matured mind.”
Nick Nolte - Thomas Jefferson

“You mellow too much you ripen and rot.”
Woody Allen

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge 
that you'll grow out of it.”
Doris Day

“A kid who wears the same gymnastics sweatshirt three days a week isn't getting laid until he's 29. That's what I know.”
Cameron Diaz - Elizabeth Halsey

“Grownups don't know how to believe.”

Elizabeth Earl - Frances Griffiths

“- Pu Yi - 8 Years: I do not understand. I do not understand.
- Lady Aisin-Gioro: Your majesty is a big boy now. He cannot have a wet nurse anymore. It is much better like this. Much healthier.
- Pu Yi - 8 Years: But she is not just my wet nurse. She is my butterfly.”
Tsou Tijger - Pu Yi - 8 Years
Dong Liang - Lady Aisin-Gioro