Emily Procter Quotes

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

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.

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

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.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

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

I feel like 2012 was the first year I actually felt like a grown-up.

I really don't want to feel like an adult.

Actually going to the supermarket to get my own groceries was a revelation. I'd never had to fill the fridge before, do my laundry, put petrol in my car. It was scary - but there was a kind of joy about it, too.

Adulting is hard.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

I'm a grown man now, I've got a family, I understand responsibility.

Both my kids are above 30 now... grown up enough to take their own decisions.

I have a lot more responsibilities, I guess you could say. I have a lot more responsibilities than a lot of people my age.

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.

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.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

I think I am an adult.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

I lived at home till I was 29.

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.