Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

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

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.

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

I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.

It's kind of a Peter Pan thing: I want to stay a kid. I love it. But I guess you have to grow up someday. Everybody does.

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.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

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

I lived at home till I was 29.

You've got to grow up sometime.

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

I moved out of home when I was 15.

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.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

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 think part of being an adult is leaving the fairytale behind.

I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

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.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

You are going to grow up whether you want to or not. It requires no effort.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

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.

We all have to grow up some time.

It was when I came back from Leeds that things started to change. I went from being a kid to having to man up and going into a man's game.