Grew Up Quotes

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

Basically, as a kid I grew up to a lot of good music, and part of my appreciation for music, from being a small child, was appreciating Jamaican music.

Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

I grew up 45 minutes outside of Chicago.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

I grew up only singing country. I did listen to like Debbie Gibson and other pop music, but I would only sing country music.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

Everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa... I know what it means to be from Iowa - what we value and what's important... I grew up here in Iowa.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.

I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.

I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.

I have always been physically active. I grew up a tomboy and [was] into sports, so staying active is something that I enjoy.

Where I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.

I grew up in the Midwest and had a lot of exposure to big religion. I went to church every Sunday - my mother even sang in the choir - and most families I knew where practicing Christians.

I was pretty much a child of Monty Python. I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.

I grew up on the West Side - the "near West Side," [in Detroit], as they say - in what would be considered now the inner city.

I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I've taken every comparative-religion course that was available. God? I have no idea.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.