Early Responsibility Quotes

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

... a boy on a man's errand.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

I was accepted to multiple fashion schools. But I had two kids when I was a teenager. My kids' mom already had two kids when she was still in high school. So I had to be in the streets early. Instead of going to fashion school, I took the street route.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I've been broody since the age of 12.

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

At school I was lazy. But I started working when I was 15, washing dishes at a local truck stop restaurant. I was really, really bored with school, and I wanted to get a job as fast as I could. School was just so easy. There was just no challenge to it.

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

I never got a chance to be a teenager.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

They were tough times and I started working when I was 10 years old, delivering papers and eventually becoming a waiter.

I was a teenage godmother.

I was a latchkey kid, from 4 or 5 years old.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

I was six when I started working in theater. I chose to be an adult before I should be.

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

I never really wanted to grow up. I grew up really young. I moved out when I was 13 - that's when I started acting.