Dizzee Rascal Quotes

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

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

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

This industry kind of forces you to grow up very quickly.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

I had to grow up very quickly.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

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.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

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.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

I grew up as an only child.

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.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

A man by himself is in bad company.

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

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

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.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.