I've Grown Up Quotes

#1. Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my family is healthy and happy. I'm financially ok and I do what I love for a living. That's what I think, and I think god, how did I get so lucky.

Angelina Jolie

#2. I was a wild child. It's nice, though, now to have grown up and be normal and domestic. I've become very traditional. Conservative, worldly and very wise but fun.

Kelly Carlson

#3. Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.

Hafez Nazeri

#4. I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Penelope Wilton

#5. There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Daniel Radcliffe

#6. If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.

Millard Drexler

#7. I've grown up and understood how I'm supposed to conduct myself and I respect people as I go along the way.

Cliff Floyd

#8. I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

Dhani Harrison

#9. I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#10. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.I guess that means I've grown up now ...

Cassandra Clare

#11. You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up ... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Cher

#12. In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

Lily Cole

#13. There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.

Ella Henderson

#14. I've finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.

Gloria Steinem

#15. I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

Jake Lloyd

#16. I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

Ricky Schroder

#17. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

Ian Schrager

#18. Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#19. My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

Jasmine Guinness

#20. I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

Tamala Jones

#21. Where did you grow up?"
He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?

Dana Marton

#22. When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

Ryan Reynolds

#23. I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

George Harrison

#24. I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

Chris O'Donnell

#25. Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

Sam Worthington

#26. The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.

Fred Funk

#27. For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.

Robert Smith

#28. I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey

#29. I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Paul Westerberg

#30. I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

Meryl Streep

#31. Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree. (Ellen Hopkins)

Ellen Hopkins

#32. I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Ryan Eggold

#33. If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

Zoe Saldana

#34. I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.

Stephen Dorff

#35. I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.

Gabrielle Aplin

#36. I'm in college at North Carolina State University. I'm about to start my sophomore year and have an apartment on campus with three buddies I've grown up with. I get to be normal when I'm there, and then I tour Thursday through Sunday.

Scotty McCreery

#37. I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

Cory Monteith

#38. I am a product of Indian cinema; I've grown up watching Indian films ever since I can remember. And song and dance is part of our lives; it's part of our culture; we wake up to songs, we sleep to lullabies, you know, we celebrate every religious and traditional function with music.

Karan Johar

#39. I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.

Michelle Yeoh

#40. I think we've grown so far apart, we don't even know each other anymore.

Rachel Higginson

#41. I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Will Estes

#42. This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.

Latoya Hunter

#43. I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

Natalie Portman

#44. My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.

Marilyn Manson

#45. I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

#46. My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Cheryl Strayed

#47. I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do. But I do find it a bit bizarre that people find it bizarre that I've grown up.

Mandy Moore

#48. I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

Mickey Gilley

#49. I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

Gabourey Sidibe

#50. I have a lot of responsibilities, but I don't think I've grown up.

Kristen Bell

#51. I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.

Ken Livingstone

#52. It's weird because I've grown up a lot after filming the first 'Hunger Games' movie. Growing up with a character is really interesting because you feel like you have this connection with the role.

Willow Shields

#53. But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Vanessa Mae

#54. I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

Amanda Bynes

#55. My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.

Avicii

#56. I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.

Girl Talk

#57. The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

Louis C.K.

#58. Writing was something I have always been interested in. I've grown up in a household full of books, with both my parents English teachers and very booky.

Alexandra Adornetto

#59. I've grown up in the lap of the world.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#60. People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'

Kelvin Fletcher

#61. I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

Felicity Kendal

#62. I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

Deepika Padukone

#63. I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.

Green Day

#64. I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Rachel McAdams

#65. I've grown up in the press my entire life.

LeAnn Rimes

#66. Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#67. I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

Vijender Singh

#68. I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them.

Dean Ornish

#69. Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

Manti Te'o

#70. I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Ray Bradbury

#71. I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Amy Bloom

#72. I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

Sophie Blackall

#73. I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

Ingrid Bergman

#74. It'll be kids next. I like the grown-up stuff. I like having a house. I've got dogs.

Leighton Meester

#75. Well, I think it's real important that people understand, first and foremost, those of us that have lived in Arizona or in southern California, we have a very diverse population. The Hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or since we've grown up here.

Jan Brewer

#76. It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

Paula Danziger

#77. Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Jenna Fischer

#78. It's no wonder we can't understand the grown-ups," said the Story Girl indignantly, "because we've never been grown-up ourselves. But THEY have been children, and I don't see why they can't understand us.

L.M. Montgomery

#79. I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

Jane Goldman

#80. I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

Lesley Manville

#81. You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

Henry Hopper

#82. I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

Peter Steele

#83. I've grown up, luckily, with only a distant relationship to war and soldiering.

Michael Winter

#84. My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

Alice Eve

#85. I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Noel Gallagher

#86. There is an ocean of endless opportunities, and there are so many things that one can do. I'm so fortunate that I've grown up with this sort of a philosophy and mentality.

Hafez Nazeri

#87. Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

Paris Hilton

#88. My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Gary Numan

#89. One thing I can say is that as I've gotten older, I've gotten younger. I've grown up but I've kind of immatured (but matured!) but I've allowed myself to be a kid. When I was a kid, I was so much of a professional and carried myself that way. It was crazy.

Laura Bell Bundy

#90. Well now, darlin'," he drawled softly, and those eyes of his raked over her thoroughly with laughter, humor, and something else. Then his eyes landed upon her own. "You've grown up while I've been away.

Heather Graham

#91. But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.

Michael Morpurgo

#92. I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

Daniel Radcliffe

#93. I hate those old falsettos, I really do, and it's embarrassing since I've grown up.

Brian Wilson

#94. You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.

Dhani Harrison

#95. Magda looks at me as if I've gone mad. Or I've grown up. It's kind of the same thing.

Victoria Schwab

#96. I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you.

Tony Curran

#97. It's taken a while, but I've finally grown up and got my head around the fact that the healthier the food you eat is and the more exercise you do, the lighter you'll be. It really is that simple.

Martine McCutcheon

#98. Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

Daniel Radcliffe

#99. I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.

Adrian Tomine

#100. I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

Bret McKenzie