I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.
‐‐ Marla Gibbs
I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio
I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to.
‐‐ Billy Porter
I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
‐‐ Barry Hannah
I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there.
‐‐ Susan Estrich
I grew up when 'Schoolhouse Rock' taught millions of American kids how a bill becomes a law.
‐‐ Tim Griffin
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.
‐‐ Simon Cowell
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
‐‐ Amy Sherman-Palladino
I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
‐‐ Diane Paulus
I grew up with a big family. I want that. I want to have my own family.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte
I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
‐‐ Sam Altman
I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.
‐‐ Jane Fonda
I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.
‐‐ Misha Collins
I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.
‐‐ John Fusco
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The first thing I remember owning was a Pierre Cardin jumpsuit when I was 9 or 10; of course I didn't actually buy it, but I fell in love with it.
‐‐ Nina Garcia
I grew up with a front row seat to the American dream.
‐‐ Mike Pence
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.
‐‐ Ben Harper
I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz
I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.
‐‐ Mickalene Thomas
I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.
‐‐ Gael Garcia Bernal
I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.
‐‐ Rupert Sanders
I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.
‐‐ Harvey Keitel
I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.'
‐‐ Rinko Kikuchi
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra
I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom, which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia, so we used to hang out back in the day.
‐‐ Madeline Zima
I grew up with a Mediterranean diet, so I like clean, simple food. But if there's pizza on a menu, I always end up ordering it. I can't resist it.
‐‐ Sara Sampaio
I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
‐‐ K. A. Applegate
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.
‐‐ Jennifer Saunders
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.
‐‐ Cristin Milioti
I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
‐‐ Hanna Rosin
I grew up with a saying: 'It doesn't matter what you wear or where you go, but your hair always has to be brushed.' So in Italy, we come from that kind of culture - where how you present yourself is important.
‐‐ Mariacarla Boscono
I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins.
‐‐ Mona Simpson
I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
‐‐ Brian K. Vaughan
I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
‐‐ Jose Gonzalez
I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen
I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's been a congressman for many years, and he's running again.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco
I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine
I grew up with a wide range of music.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley
I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.
‐‐ Sarah Wynter
I grew up with action movies in my head.
‐‐ Christian Kane
I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.
‐‐ Tim Daly
I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
‐‐ George Duke
I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!
‐‐ Jerry O'Connell
I grew up with all kinds of people.
‐‐ Vin Diesel
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
‐‐ Bryan White
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
‐‐ Erykah Badu