190 Movie Quotes about Growing Up (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

Updated: Oct 22, 2025

Memorable quotes about growing up, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

81 Well, my son is grown up now. Gettin' old enough to make his own decisions. I guess we'll just have to let him decide.

Daws Butler in The Tex Avery Show

82 When are you going to grow up? You're always making trouble. Always sneaking off out. You never concentrate and practice in kung fu. You're damn lazy.

Quote from Of Cooks And Kung Fu (1979)

83 That's all right when you're a kid, because, well, every kid has the right to be a kid, but not tonight. Not tonight. Tonight, you've got to be a grown-up.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

84 Sixteen, already? -Yeah, they don't stand still like we do.

Harry Belafonte as Johnny Ingram in Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)

85 You sit around watching me like I was a 10-year-old kid. -How old do you think you are?

Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)

86 Well, Henery, you're a big boy now. We'd better have a little talk. -Okay, Pop. What do you wanna know?

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

87 Now you're down again. You gotta learn to stand on your own feet, boy. I may not always be around to help you.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

88 He's a boy. -Boys have the darnedest way of growing up. Almost when you're not looking. -But I'll be looking.

Rita Hayworth as Gilda Mundson in Gilda (1946)

89 Seymour's too young to get married! Look here. A boy's got to go and play around a little bit. Go out on the makin'. Have a ball.

Jonathan Haze as Seymour Krelboined in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

90 My son and my daughter. I don't recognize you. What's happened? -Just a few years of normal growth. Don't you approve? -I don't know yet. I've gotta have more time to get to know you.

Fredric March as Al Stephenson; Teresa Wright as Peggy Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

190 Movie Quotes about Growing Up (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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