40 Movie Quotes about Maturity (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

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

21 When women reach the age of maturity, mother nature sometimes overworks their frustration to a point of irrationalism, like the middle-aged man of our age who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early 20s.

Quote from Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

22 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)

23 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

24 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)

25 I'm too tough, son. No white meat, just gristle. Feel my wing. I was young and tender once. Feel my wing like I told you, boy. But that was long ago.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

26 Are we men or are we children? Of what use are all these melodramatic gestures?

Boris Karloff as Hjalmar Poelzig in The Black Cat (1934)

27 She told me that when you were a little boy, if you didn't get your own way, you used to lie on the floor, kick and get red in the face. -What did you say? -I said you didn't do that anymore. Now if you don't get your own way, you just get embarrassed.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)

28 Very funny. You guys are being real mature.

Crispin Glover as George McFly in Back to the Future

29 That's great, John. Good job. Very mature.

Quote from Die Hard (1988)

30 I'm through lying to myself, you know? It's time to be mature about this and just face facts.

Quote from Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby