All Quotes

Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.
‐‐ Minnie Driver

Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
‐‐ Natalie Maines

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.
‐‐ Maya Lin

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we're doing arenas.
‐‐ Jeff Dunham

Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.
‐‐ Vincent Piazza

Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.
‐‐ Charlotte McKinney

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'
‐‐ Mark Pellegrino

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
‐‐ Dale Earnhardt

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.
‐‐ Dianna Agron

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!
‐‐ Colin Donnell

Growing up, I was a big Red Sox fan and looked up to guys like Dustin Pedroia, who's obviously not the biggest guy, but the way he competes, the way he works, it was motivating for me.
‐‐ Andrew Benintendi

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
‐‐ Gal Gadot

Growing up, I was a giant KISS fan, and the truth is the record I had was 'Rock and Roll Over,' and there wasn't even a clear picture of them in the packaging! So I really had no idea what they looked like; I just loved their music.
‐‐ Rivers Cuomo

Growing up, I was a huge fan of horror movies. There's nothing more fun than going into a movie with a smile because you know you're going to be scared to death. There's something thrilling about sitting there waiting for a scare to happen.
‐‐ Ashley Bell

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in college on New Year's Eve. It was Pearl Jam opening for Nirvana opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
‐‐ Taye Diggs

Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.
‐‐ Joyce DeWitt

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.
‐‐ Brenton Thwaites

Growing up, I was always chubby. My girlfriends were always running around in two-pieces, and I never felt comfortable to do that.
‐‐ Khloe Kardashian

Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the perfect platform to showcase what I wanted. Personally, I was going through a dark phase in my life, and I decided to make videos and basically go by the adage, 'If you want to cheer up yourself, go cheer up someone else.'
‐‐ Lilly Singh

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.
‐‐ Tahj Mowry

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
‐‐ Ippy Aiona

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.
‐‐ Stephan James

Growing up, I was always involved in the deaf community.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.
‐‐ Lily James

Growing up, I was always really inspired by Disney, and I had a great love of everything they created. My mum was huge fan, and she used to collect stills, and so they were all around the house, and we very much grew up on the early Disney films.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

Growing up I was as big a tomboy as you can get.
‐‐ Eliza Dushku

Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have encouraged me in my life to live strong for Christ. My church is a place where I can develop friendships with others that will encourage me in my walk with Christ.
‐‐ Bethany Hamilton

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
‐‐ Tyson Fury

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
‐‐ John Sununu

Growing up, I was fascinated with Buck Rogers' airplanes. As I began to mature in World War II, it became jets and rocket planes. But it was always in the air.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.
‐‐ Gbenga Akinnagbe

Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from 'Friends.'
‐‐ Dylan O'Brien

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

Growing up, I was like any Aussie kid - you know we love our sport - that was my favourite subject at school. That is a subject, right?
‐‐ Nick Cummins

Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.
‐‐ Louise Nurding

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
‐‐ Quinton Aaron

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
‐‐ Claire Foy

Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.
‐‐ Duncan Jones

Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.
‐‐ Jack Falahee