Quotes About Wanting To Grow Up

#1. Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore ... instead I grew up and became something that people hated.

Marilyn Manson

#2. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

Timothy Dalton

#3. All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

Kevin O'Leary

#4. I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Matt Damon

#5. Women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps ... they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Betty Friedan

#6. You will have to fight every day because there is so much injustice and horror to fight against.
But if you don't fight, you will grow lazy and discontent under the guise of wanting peace.

Michelle Hodkin

#7. Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!).

Deyth Banger

#8. Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best.

R.A. Dickey

#9. I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

Ashley Jensen

#10. I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe.

Ted Cruz

#11. I think this is what real love is like.. Wanting to be together as they grow older.

Minzy

#12. I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

Eva Longoria

#13. I don't even think places like the National Youth Theatre (NYT) are necessarily about wanting to be an actor when you grow up. They're about meeting people from different backgrounds and different religions and different cultures, and mixing with people that you wouldn't ordinarily meet.

Ashley Jensen

#14. Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Robert Gottlieb

#15. Did I grow up wanting to clean houses?" She raised an eyebrow, as if checking that he had seriously asked that question. "Um, no. I wanted to be a professional scuba diver. But I had Tanze

Jojo Moyes

#16. And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

David Benioff

#17. We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

Pierre Laval

#18. I think that's the beauty of love, wanting to be with someone; taste their sweetness and their fears, live their lives and be there in their death, share their ups and their downs, and most importantly, love them and grow old with them, even if they were some kind of monster.

Cameron Jace

#19. When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.

Seth Godin

#20. I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

Jodie Foster

#21. There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

Fred Rogers

#22. I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. He whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can.

C.S. Lewis

#23. We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

Stephen Covey

#24. My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

Doug Liman

#25. The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

Richard Russo

#26. I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Asia Argento

#27. Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry
a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

Ally Carter

#28. Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#29. My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

Tom Tomorrow

#30. I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

Paul Schneider

#31. I think you grow up wanting to be a racing driver. Then it dawns on you that it's not going to happen.

Dominic Cooper

#32. Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn't enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow
for the better
working to deserve each other, was the key.

Penny Reid