Grew Up Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love dressing up. I'm from a huge African family and grew up in a really colorful place. The way I dress reflects my environment and wanting to take people into a fantasy world for half an hour.

Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on the priority list.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

I grew up on basketball, volleyball, that sort of thing. For me, track and field was a whole 'nother beast.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

I grew up in a very small, rural country town, and we didn't really have 'the arts.'

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'

I grew up with the smell of the lake and the feeling of the woods.

I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.