Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

I was living with my stepfather for a while, and then I moved out and went and lived on my own in Hastings-by-the-Sea from about 16.

I lived at home till I was 29.

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

I've been a protected child, but I moved out for further studies when I was 16, and I have travelled quite a bit by myself.

I lived at home until I was 23.

I'm a late developer. I only moved out of home when I was 30.

The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

When you're young, when you've never done anything very much on your own, you imagine that it won't be so hard.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

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

Living by yourself, technically by yourself, at the age of 16 is not easy to do.

My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.

I left home to go to college, and then I moved back home. I moved back for three years from 21 to 24.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

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.

To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.