All Quotes

I grew up as a Polynesian kid in the Polynesian community, and I was this skinny white kid.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.
‐‐ Josh Peck

I grew up as a Roy Rogers fan, of course.
‐‐ Phil Everly

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
‐‐ Chuck D

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.
‐‐ Jennifer Bini Taylor

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm.
‐‐ Kurt Fuller

I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

I grew up as an only child.
‐‐ Mitchell Baker

I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
‐‐ Kate Beckinsale

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.
‐‐ Matthew Morrison

I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif.
‐‐ Mona Simpson

I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.
‐‐ Jonathan Tucker

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.
‐‐ Aravind Adiga

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.
‐‐ Timothy Hutton

I grew up as one of six kids.
‐‐ Billy Baldwin

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
‐‐ Karan Johar

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
‐‐ Faith Hill

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
‐‐ Chris Whittle

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.
‐‐ Don Sherwood

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
‐‐ Alexis Arquette

I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends there!
‐‐ Eva LaRue

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.
‐‐ Elton John

I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
‐‐ Hilarie Burton

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
‐‐ Marsha Norman

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
‐‐ Zosia Mamet

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I grew up barefoot, dirty, climbing trees. It made me appreciate things more.
‐‐ Elle King

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.
‐‐ Graham Hawkes

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.
‐‐ Katheryn Winnick

I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
‐‐ Zac Efron

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.
‐‐ Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
‐‐ Flea

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.
‐‐ Rebecca Black

I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.
‐‐ Olivia Wilde

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.
‐‐ Isabel Lucas

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
‐‐ Lisa Kleypas

I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
‐‐ Leila Janah

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.
‐‐ Don Lemon

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
‐‐ Thom Yorke

I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
‐‐ Tananarive Due

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.
‐‐ Mary Meeker