I grew up an athlete, growing up in Pittsburgh. I played basketball. I played football. I played a little bit of baseball in my earlier years.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua
I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.
‐‐ Kimberly Elise
I grew up an Indians fan my entire life. I was never really 'against' the Yankees, but I knew what they were capable of.
‐‐ Bill Mazeroski
I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.
‐‐ Keith Miller
I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.
‐‐ Luca Parmitano
I grew up and I was weaned on the Marx Brothers. They were sort of my all-time favorite. My parents showed me their movies when I was very young. And as I got older, I became a Charlie Chaplin fan, and I love Buster Keaton.
‐‐ Joshua Malina
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton
I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf
I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign
I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.
‐‐ David Walton
I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everything from heavy Catholicism to followers of Indian spiritual masters to Unitarian universalists - all in one family. Though the family aspect was stronger than any particular dogma.
‐‐ St. Vincent
I grew up around acting, but it was never thought of as a career.
‐‐ Troy Garity
I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
‐‐ Zak Orth
I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
‐‐ John Irving
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.
‐‐ Paul Allen
I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad
I grew up around guitar players.
‐‐ Charlie Haden
I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.
‐‐ Michael Rispoli
I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
‐‐ Chad Hugo
I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.
‐‐ Emilia Clarke
I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
‐‐ Dolly Parton
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
‐‐ Gail Z. Martin
I grew up around people that enjoyed life day to day and found pleasure in simple things.
‐‐ Josh Turner
I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
‐‐ Dakota Johnson
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.
‐‐ Pitbull
I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
‐‐ Bruce Coville
I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Seigner
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.
‐‐ Alicia Keys
I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table.
‐‐ David Grann
I grew up as a boy with aggression.
‐‐ Don McCullin
I grew up as a British kid - I went to school in London, roamed the streets of London - but having these interactions with my roots and going back to Ghana, I'm like, 'Yeah this is sick.' I love my country and my people, and the energy and vibes that they bring back. So I want to rep that and be a part of it.
‐‐ Stormzy
I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.
‐‐ Patty Griffin
I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero
I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
‐‐ C. Thomas Howell
I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.
‐‐ Diogo Morgado
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
‐‐ Penn Jillette
I grew up as a country boy.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder
I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.
‐‐ Jillian Hervey
I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn
I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.
‐‐ Paulo Costanzo
I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff
I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
‐‐ Derek Mears
I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.
‐‐ Bruce Feiler
I grew up as a huge comic fan and a huge Batman & Robin fan. I watched all the TV shows, went to all the movies - I even had the lunch box; man, I was in!
‐‐ Jesse McCartney
I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson
I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I went to a Samoan church when I was younger. I went to a Catholic school, so I was actually able to experience a lot of different religions. Mormonism, as well. My father in-law, who I'm very close with, is a Muslim.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
‐‐ Amy Adams
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom