Sheena Easton Quotes

I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.

You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I don't need adult supervision.

We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should be wary about tipping the scales too far. The community of selves shouldn't be a democracy, but it shouldn't be a dictatorship, either.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

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

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

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

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

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.

I never regret my decisions.

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

That year of modeling, I grew up a lot - I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. and taking care of yourself.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.