Anne Hathaway Quotes

It's all about baby steps and trying to figure out how to slowly, elegantly become an adult.

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18 I was able to move out, and I was out. I feel like a different person since then; I mean, it's obviously a big turning point in life. I feel like I've established myself, and I'm a smarter and more mature for it.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

Once you move away from home, it's never quite the same again. You expect everything to be just as you left it, and it never is. It's almost the first step into adulthood, realising you've got to make your own way.

I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going to college, I was still only an hour away from them.Now, after Idol and touring all over the place, I feel like I have become a lot more independent.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

I'm ready to live on my own. It's a really big step, but I'm ready.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.

My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.

I have a fresh start, now that I've turned 18, which feels like such a symbolic age of independence and hopefully a new phase of my life.