Emma Watson Quotes

My brother and I had a lot of freedom growing up, and thankfully, we both turned out OK.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

I grew up pretty fast because I had a lot of older brothers and sisters.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.