Maturity quotes

“- Mrs. Harris: Remember your manners. And don't forget to cross your ankles decently when you sit down. And don't sit in a draft, either. And don't slide down the banisters.
- Pauline Harris: Mama!
- Mrs. Harris: Well, you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding.
- Pauline Harris: Mama, that was 25 years ago! What do you think I am?”
Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Margaret Harris
Kate Lynch - Pauline Harris

“I truly feel pity for you both. You are grown up now! And yet you still act as children, who want to do nothing but run and play. You cannot run and play all your life, Dianne!”

Grace Zabriskie - Bob's Mother

“Grow up! And when you do, give us a call.”

Anastasia Spivey - Donna Jo

“I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog? I grow up to be a loser.”
Bruce Willis - Russ Duritz

“- Gilbert: You know what? You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: Yeah!
- Gilbert: You're such a big boy.
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: You know what? I bet you could do this all by yourself if you really wanted to. Could you do this by yourself?
- Arnie: I'm a big boy!
- Gilbert: Yeah, you're a big boy. Now take this...
- Arnie: Take this.
-...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arnie Grape

“Arnold, I'm forty years old. You know what that means? It's time for me to stop screwing around. This time I've spent with you and David is the closest thing to whatever it is I want.”

Brian Kerwin - Ed Reese

“Let love guide your actions, and one day, you'll be a man, and will place your mark next to those of our ancestors.”
Joan Copeland - Tanana

“Donna's arrived. She'll be a hundred and thirty six next month and she still acts like a teenager.”
Charlotte Rae - Miss Cackle

“Little kids buy cereal the same way grown men buy lingerie. They will buy stuff they care nothing about just to get the prize that's inside.”
Jeff Foxworthy - Jeff Foxworthy

“A toast... to us, to our last summer of immature, adolescent decadence.”
Ryan Phillippe - Barry William Cox

“- Matthew Trant: She's getting too big to be running around wild as a jack rabbit.
- Abigail Trant: It used to be she was too little, and now she's too big. I guess she passed up just right when nobody was lookin'.”

Sam Waterston - Matthew Trant
Tess Harper - Abigail Trant

“Adults. Don't believe a word they say.”

Virginya Keehne - Melissa Danson

“You know fathers don't like to admit it when their daughters are capable of running their own lives. It means we've become spectators.”
Larry Miller - Walter Stratford

“I like all of God's creatures. I just like some of them better stuffed.”
Gena Rowlands - Ramona Calvert

“- Sarah: Are you on a new book?
- Maurice Bendrix: Of course.
- Sarah: It's not about us, is it? The one you threatened to write?
- Maurice Bendrix: A book takes a year to write. It's too hard work for revenge.
- Sarah: If only you knew how little you had to revenge.
- Maurice Bendrix: I'm joking. We are adults. We knew it had to end some time.”
Julianne Moore - Sarah Miles
Ralph Fiennes - Maurice Bendrix

“Grown women are prepared for life's little emergencies.”
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway

“I'm 56-years-old. I can't blame anybody for anything I do.”
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Lloyd: Caroline? Why don't you eat something?
- Caroline: Loyd? Why don't you eat me?
- Connie: Kids, go to into the den. This not a conversation for children.
- Rose: It is not an apprioprate conversation for adults either.”

Kevin Spacey - Lloyd
Judy Davis - Caroline
Christine Baranski - Connie
Glynis Johns - Rose

“- 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

“- Gus: Caroline and Loyd, will get the coffee and deserts then we'll be opening presents.
- Connie: We can't open presents til midnight.
- Gus: Why not?
- Connie: Because it's not Christmas until midnight!
- Gus: We'll be changing the rules, a little bit. We are opening the presents now. Not later, now. Why? We're adults, and we can open our...” (continue)(continue reading)

Denis Colin Leary - Gus
Christine Baranski - Connie

“- Alison Kantrowitz: I never have to listen to you ever again. I saw you. I was there. You should have seen yourself. You looked disgusting! I'm the teenager! Not you! You had your chance.
- Pearl Kantrowitz: No. I didn't.
- Alison Kantrowitz: Well then why do the rest of us have to suffer just because you fucked up your life!”

Anna Paquin - Alison Kantrowitz
Diane Lane - Pearl Kantrowitz

“- Wayne Campbell: Jim, why was I supposed to put on this concert?
- Jim Morrison: Because you had to learn that it doesn't matter what you do, Cassandra loves you for who you are and that, being an adult means facing resposibility yet still taking the time to have fun.”
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell
Michael A. Nickles - Jim Morrison

“- Mary: You're a child!
- Christopher Tracy: I go to dinner without my father's permission.”
Kristin A. Scott Thomas - Mary Sharon
Prince - Christopher Tracy

“- Anne Shirley: I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
- Marilla Cuthbert: You'll have better sense some day, I hope.”
Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert

“There's little or no gold to be dug. He's plenty old and people don't mature anymore. They stay jackasses all their lives.”
Bill Erwin - Grandfather