All Quotes

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
‐‐ Ashley Tisdale

Growing up, I always liked Catwoman and Superman; they inspired me.
‐‐ Chiara Ferragni

Growing up, I always loved Disney movies, but the first movie I remember seeing is 'Sleepers,' so I wasn't really taken to children's movies.
‐‐ Sarah Silverman

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows.
‐‐ Lindsay Ellingson

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh

Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.
‐‐ Lily Donaldson

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.
‐‐ Sophie Turner

Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.
‐‐ Sevyn Streeter

Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
‐‐ Florence Welch

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
‐‐ Damian McGinty

Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface. Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic.
‐‐ Shereen El Feki

Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
‐‐ Elliott Yamin

Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
‐‐ Kimbal Musk

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
‐‐ Venus Williams

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.
‐‐ Alicia Sacramone

Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They weren't wanting to necessarily support an acting career; it's a really fickle business, and it can be difficult and unstable. They were rooting for education and the whole nine yards.
‐‐ Portia Doubleday

Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'
‐‐ Meghan Trainor

Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
‐‐ Kim Weston

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.
‐‐ DeMar DeRozan

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
‐‐ Jennifer Haigh

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Growing up, I didn't really know who the Tuskegee Airmen were.
‐‐ Anthony Hemingway

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and hip-hop; it was this new form of music.
‐‐ Max Casella

Growing up I didn't watch movies.
‐‐ Denzel Washington

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.
‐‐ Jonathan Ive

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
‐‐ Sean Lennon

Growing up, I felt insecure about my build. I didn't feel very feminine. But as time went on, I learned to completely embrace my body.
‐‐ Hope Solo

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.
‐‐ Ashlee Simpson

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'
‐‐ John Maeda

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
‐‐ Mia Love

Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.
‐‐ Muhtar Kent

Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
‐‐ Becki Newton

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.
‐‐ Molly Tarlov

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.
‐‐ Paula Deen

Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.
‐‐ Logan Lerman

Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spoke to. When things were tough, or I was scared in an unsafe environment, I always imagined that the Ninja Turtles would come to the rescue.
‐‐ Ruby Rose

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and stuff. They didn't smell so good, but I think they worked some magic.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.
‐‐ Rob Zombie