Maturity quotes

“We might have to live here for a long time! Maybe the rest of our lives! If we are stuck here until we get old, then we can't go on acting like kids! We've got to be sensible and make things work!”

Danuel Pipoly - Piggy

“- Dr. Suzanne Carter: We're consenting adults.
- Dean Elias: So were Bonnie and Clyde.”
Harley Jane Kozak - Dr. Suzanne Carter
Larry Miller - Dean Phillip Elias

When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry". And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities".
Eddie Izzard - Himself

“I'm sick of you always thinking you know what's best for me, dawg. You ain't my fucking father. I'm a grown man.”

Eminem - Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith

“Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe. Falling in love with love is playing the fool. Caring too much is such a juvenile fancy. Learning to trust is just for children in school.”
Bernadette Peters - Cinderella's Stepmother

“Life is filled with it's little miseries, each of us in his own way must learn to deal with adversity in a mature and adult fashion.”

Jim Carter - Déjà Vu

“- Harold 'Happy' Loman: Bob Harrison, he said you were tops, and then you go and do some damn fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator like a comedian.
- Biff Loman: Well, so what? I like to whistle sometimes.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: You don't raise a guy to a responsible job who whistles in the elevator!”
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman
John Malkovich - Biff Loman

“What is... a man of, uh, your age... doing with my 21-year-old daughter? It'd be easy enough to say you're afraid of mature women, but that's so glib. Afraid of what, exactly? So I kept thinking. And then it hit me. I know exactly what she has that I haven't got. Awe. That's it, isn't it? I mean, no real woman, no woman of experience would ever...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jean Smart - Deborah Sloane

“SpongeBob. You're a great frycook, but I gave the job to Squidward because being manager is a big responsibility. Well, let's face it. He's more... mature than you.”
Clancy Brown - Mr. Krabs

“Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.”
Kirsten Dunst - Mary

“I mean, you're the grown-up here. If a kid is experimenting and says something flirtatious, you ignore it, you don't encourage it! If a kid says 'Hey, let's make screwdrivers!', you take the alcohol away, and you don't race them to the next drink!”
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark

“- Pirate King: What's the age of consent around here?
- Mabel Stanley: Eighteen.
- Pirate King: Good! I'm old enough.”
Ted Hamilton - Pirate King
Kristy McNichol - Mabel Stanley

“- Judge Fielding: That's quite enough horseplay, Nels. Try and act your age.
- Nels Gudmundsson: I think if I did that, Your Honor, I'd be dead.”
James Cromwell - Judge Fielding
Max von Sydow - Nels Gudmundsson

“- Harry Block: This guy is too old for her.
- Richard: He's younger than you are.
- Harry Block: Hey, I'm much too old for her, it's ridiculous. But, because of my immaturity I have a boyish quality that works.”
Woody Allen - Harry Block
Bob Balaban - Richard

“The man's immature, you know? He's like a child. I'll tell you this much: there ain't no God while Howard Stern's walking the Earth, I'll tell you that.”
Paul Giamatti - Kenny

“God is just an imaginary friend for grown ups.”
Morgan Freeman - Walter Crewes

“You shouldn't be wearing a dress; you should be wearing a diaper.”

Jeff Bridges - Jack Baker

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”
Drew Barrymore - Karen Pomeroy

“When you make a blame sandwich, you gotta be ready to eat it yourself.”

Seann William Scott - John Farley

“You're 900-years-old, grow up!”

David Krumholtz - Bernard

“- Deirdre Lefever: Look, you're turning forty tomorrow, you haven't acquired a single thing of real value in your life... and no, no, money doesn't count. You're virtually friendless, you barely talk to your family, and you've just lost the only woman in the world who's ever meant anything to you.
- Russ Duritz: Who, Amy? Oh, come on, she's...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jean Smart - Deirdre Lafever
Bruce Willis - Russ Duritz

“- Monica: We're getting a baby.
- Chandler: We're growing up.
- Monica: We sure are.
- Chandler: So who's going to tell them?
- Monica: Not it.
- Chandler: Not it. Damn it!”
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“- Jane Blue: Frank sent the Fisher-Price Barnyard.
- Jeff Blue: You sent that? Aw, do you know those cows really moo?
- Jane Blue: Jeff plays with it day and night.”
Kathleen Turner - Jane Blue
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue

“You are a mature and vibrant woman, and don't you let anybody tell you anything different.”

Roseanne Barr - Ruth Patchett

“It's funny, with both my parents gone, I suddenly have this overwhelming urge to act maturely.”

Stephen Fry - Peter Morton