All Quotes

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
‐‐ Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
‐‐ G-Eazy

I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
‐‐ Ricky Schroder

I didn't grow up beautiful.
‐‐ Jennifer Flavin

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.
‐‐ Theophilus London

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.
‐‐ Trombone Shorty

I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.
‐‐ Daphne Oz

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.
‐‐ Sky Ferreira

I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.
‐‐ Victor LaValle

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
‐‐ Fleur East

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
‐‐ Debby Ryan

I didn't grow up in politics.
‐‐ Richard Mourdock

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.
‐‐ Alexandra Kerry

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.
‐‐ Chris Isaak

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.
‐‐ Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up listening to country music. I pretty much grew up rebelling against country music.
‐‐ Natalie Maines

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.
‐‐ Ryan Lewis

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.
‐‐ Tim Pratt

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.
‐‐ Marques Houston

I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

I didn't grow up thinking I was pretty; there was always a prettier girl than me. So I learned to be smart and tried to be funny and develop the inside of me, because I felt like that's what I had.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
‐‐ Sydney Pollack

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
‐‐ Sheryl Swoopes

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!
‐‐ Kim Barnouin

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.
‐‐ Paul Schneider

I didn't grow up watching a lot of TV.
‐‐ Diane Kruger

I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'
‐‐ Jane Levy

I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
‐‐ Summer Phoenix

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
‐‐ Charlie Puth

I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
‐‐ Vanessa Lachey

I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
‐‐ George Weinberg

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.
‐‐ Donny Osmond

I didn't grow up with classical music. My father was a folk music singer.
‐‐ Juan Diego Florez

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
‐‐ Matt Damon

I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.
‐‐ Tom Morello

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.
‐‐ Marsha Thomason

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.
‐‐ Paul Henderson

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.
‐‐ Rob Corddry

I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
‐‐ Patricia Highsmith

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.
‐‐ Lolo Jones

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
‐‐ Blake Lively