Grew Up Quotes

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

I grew up a wrestler; for a long time in Oklahoma I was a wrestler.

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.

I grew up in Siena and was surrounded by the Palio, and all my friends at school were obsessed with it. But since my parents are English, I was never quite part of it.

I grew up listening to Nirvana, and then went through some bad 90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I had always wanted to tell a story that was set in Los Angeles in the '50s, because that's where I grew up, and it was the city of my childhood memories.

I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and my relationship with the piano has been going on for about 38 years.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

Maybe it's because I grew up during the MTV generation, but to me a perfect song is one I can imagine a music video to, a song that can take you into a dream.

I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

Technology changes the medium. I grew up on watching a box in my living room that made my parents happy. After something is gone, the dust will settle and I'll see what's next.

I've always enjoyed family movies anyway. And I grew up loving actors who could hop around and play in something very family friendly, big, playful - and then go and do drama and comedy as well.

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.

My excuse for everything is that I grew up in Florida.

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

What I want to know is: Why is it important to have visible stomach muscles? I grew up in an era (the Paleolithic) when people kept their stomach muscles discreetly out of sight.

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

Addams Family blew my mind because it was the first time I was in L.A. and Hollywood, and I grew up a huge fan of movies.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider.

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.