Grew Up Quotes

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I really grew up more of a people pleaser and I just wanted to make people happy, and maybe didn't always say exactly how I was feeling.

When I sit here and see that the eight brothers from the neighborhood that I grew up with still have success, it had to be magical.

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

If pressed, I would say I feel British. It's where I grew up and where I choose to live, the culture that I love, but I feel perfectly at home in America, I don't feel like a tourist or anything.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.

I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile.

I grew up in New York, so I grew up reading the Sunday Times. It's always something I've been aware of, since my childhood.

I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

I grew up watching movies on television and computer screens. They affected me just as powerfully in the small private space.

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

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.