Grew Quotes

I wanted to be a songwriter.I didn't so much want to be a performer.I more grew into that just from being a songwriter.

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

I grew up in the countryside in the middle of nowhere in England and got out as soon as I could!

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

I grew up on a tiny little island.

I grew up without the rose-tinted look at the profession many of my friends had, but I've been very lucky playing major roles in 'An Ideal Husband', 'Arcadia' and 'The Memory of Water'.

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew.

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

I come from extremely liberal people, one of only 20 in Texas where I grew up.

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.

I mean, I grew up an athlete training and training and training. So I kind of have that mentality.

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching. ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that.

When we grew up in Vancouver our friends were - I don't know if I'd say callous, but we had a very, you know, harsh relationship with one another; we'd constantly make fun of each other.

I'm fascinated to see the future of social media and also how the generation who grew up with it will evolve into adulthood.

I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.

I grew up very much an athlete and very much a swimmer and a dancer and a horse rider and surf lifesaving club, you name it I've probably done it. I just find so much gratification in being physical.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Kitten, when did you get so tall? (Ravyn) I grew while you were in the bathroom. (Erika)

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.