All Quotes

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
‐‐ Brie Larson

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
‐‐ Marisol Nichols

Growing up, I just wore whatever fit. I was going through crazy growth spurts, so I could never really take my style too seriously.
‐‐ Chandler Parsons

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
‐‐ Les Wexner

Growing up, I learned that if you are passionate about something, that you can move mountains. Passion is more precious than gold, and it's a currency that everyone craves. It's something that's hard to fake, and when it's real, everyone wants to be on that train. It's about giving people something that they can believe.
‐‐ Stephanie Allain

Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.
‐‐ John Burnside

Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy

Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to '80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
‐‐ Ella Henderson

Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
‐‐ Alex Clare

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
‐‐ John Burnside

Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.'
‐‐ Isabel Gillies

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.
‐‐ Molly Tarlov

Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.
‐‐ Jennie Finch

Growing up, I loved Bill Cosby.
‐‐ Robin Thicke

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.
‐‐ Anne Meara

Growing up, I loved magic, I loved acting, I loved comedy. I really didn't know what direction I was going. I was trying a whole bunch of stuff.
‐‐ Michael Carbonaro

Growing up, I loved Morticia Addams and Lily Munster on one hand, and Jeannie from 'I Dream of Jeannie' on the other. Two completely different ends of the spectrum, kind of like me.
‐‐ Sarah Shahi

Growing up, I missed the whole 'Three Stooges' thing. Either they weren't on the station in my hometown, or we hadn't bought a TV set yet, or they came to town too late for me. I'm pretty sure that at the right age, I would have loved them.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.
‐‐ Meg Cabot

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
‐‐ Jessie Mueller

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
‐‐ Alan Dean Foster

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.
‐‐ Kourtney Kardashian

Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
‐‐ Lance Reddick

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.
‐‐ Alex Winston

Growing up, I never saw Asian-Americans on TV at all.
‐‐ Brenda Song

Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!
‐‐ Charles Kelley

Growing up, I played 'Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball' and just whatever I could get my hands on. When I was really young, I was a big fan of Mario and that type of stuff. I still play videogames now, so it was really cool for me to be able to play as myself on '2K6' or '2K7,' I believe it was, when I was a rookie.
‐‐ Justin Verlander

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
‐‐ Jayma Mays

Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.
‐‐ Carrie Underwood

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.
‐‐ James McCartney

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'
‐‐ Chris Evans

Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.
‐‐ David Harewood

Growing up, I remember I had several different 45 singles. But the first album I received was from a family friend: Emmylou Harris' 'Roses In The Snow.' It was so incredible. This record, to this day, is the favorite album of my life.
‐‐ Kimberly Schlapman

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.
‐‐ Mindy Kaling

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.
‐‐ John Krasinski

Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
‐‐ Kelly Corrigan

Growing up, I saw the world as an inspiring place full of interesting people.
‐‐ Margherita Missoni

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.
‐‐ Danny Huston

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
‐‐ Herschel Walker

Growing up, I started to realize I was surrounded by people who were passionately alive. Seventh Street felt raw, but I found it incredibly theatrical.
‐‐ Josh Pais

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
‐‐ Brian O'Driscoll

Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.
‐‐ Mark Wahlberg