Emma Watson Quotes

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.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

I think I am an adult.

I like to make my own mistakes.

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'm not sure I'm adult yet.

The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like.

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.

We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.

I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

People don't necessarily identify me with doing adult things.

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

I learned so much because I moved out of my mom's when I was 18. It teaches you to be responsible, to be independent.

Most people are really fighting to not be adults. And, when it happens, it's a big transition. And a lot of that is just awful. It's awful to have to get a job and really be responsible for other people. And it is funny, too. Like, we're all kind of little idiot kids trying to act like we know what we are doing.

Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

I don't need adult supervision.

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart you realize that you need to create structure for yourself.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

I'm 18 and I like it!

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.

I'm not a girl anymore.