As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in. – Julian Sands
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. – Marilyn vos Savant
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every ‘should’ is a compulsion, and not every ‘like’ is a high morality and true freedom. – Karl Rahner
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It’s a bum’s life. Quitting acting, that’s the sign of maturity. – Marlon Brando
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. – Joshua L. Liebman
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. – Marianne Williamson
There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years. – Liam Neeson
I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn’t have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride. – Karl Marlantes
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. – Laura Marling
I’d date someone younger or older; age doesn’t matter to me. Or looks, really – it’s all about maturity. – Leona Lewis
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe. – Katherine Paterson
I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It’s an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity. – Logan Lerman
Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It’s based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn’t true. – Malcolm Gladwell
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country’s creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what’s called a ‘haircut’ in financial jargon. – Peer Steinbruck
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. – Robert Blair
I do not think that having children – I have three teenagers – keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity. – Rachel Johnson
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. – Russell Smith
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. – Richard Owen
Kids don’t shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. – Robin Marantz Henig
I developed a sense of maturity when it comes to being dependent upon other people. I don’t feel anyone really truly wants me to win more than I do. – Shani Davis
I couldn’t have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in. – Susan Kohner
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. – Suze Orman
The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity. – Vladimir Potanin