Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

I lived at home till I was 29.

I lived at home until I was 23.

Growing up means leaving home and becoming a self supporting adult. I think this the hardest task any human being hast to face.

As far I'm concerned, being an adult is way more fun than being a kid. But then I was a kid who wanted to be an adult. I'd watch shows like 'Bewitched' and see Darren come home and mix a martini and I'd go, 'That looks awesome! I want to do that!'

I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

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

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 lived with my parents until I was 25.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

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

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

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 was 14 when I moved into my own apartment. I was so scared. I didn't know anything.

I moved out of home when I was 15.

I'm such a late bloomer.

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.

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.

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.

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.'

I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.

Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

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

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

I love the idea of college, but I first need to figure out how to transition to being an adult because we honestly never thought I would make it to this point.