All Quotes

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
‐‐ George Andrew Olah

I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.
‐‐ Frankie Valli

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.
‐‐ Derek Cianfrance

I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.
‐‐ Patty Griffin

I grew up Catholic. We went to confession on Saturday, stood in the shortest line, since it led to the priest who gave the easiest penance - usually a few Our Fathers and Hail Marys. We confessed in private, prayed our penance and our souls were clean.
‐‐ Regina Brett

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
‐‐ Ken Burns

I grew up cinematically in the '70s. I was watching a lot of Godard, Bresson, Dreyer, and all sorts of old films and the Czech New Wave.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

I grew up climbing mountains in Montana and Wyoming and my wife and I were engaged on top of a mountain peak: Hyalite Peak in Montana. It was a 15-mile hike to get to the top of that, round-trip - thankfully, she said yes.
‐‐ Steve Daines

I grew up close to Melbourne, about two hours outside, on Phillip Island. It's really small; it's kind of a little summer beach town.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
‐‐ Matt Groening

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.
‐‐ Elton John

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.
‐‐ Steve Earle

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.
‐‐ Megan Fox

I grew up cursing a lot.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
‐‐ Adam Sandler

I grew up dancing, and for a while in college, I was a gym rat. I finally realized... I'm going to create a little more balance in my life and make exercise something that I enjoy doing. So I went back to dance when I started doing more musical theatre, and I've just found that it's the best thing that works for my body.
‐‐ Christine Lakin

I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
‐‐ Jacob Artist

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.
‐‐ Daniella Monet

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
‐‐ Q'orianka Kilcher

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
‐‐ Brittany Snow

I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
‐‐ Kacy Catanzaro

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
‐‐ Jewel

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
‐‐ Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.
‐‐ Jody Hill

I grew up doing musical theater.
‐‐ Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

I grew up doing musicals. I've done so many musicals in my life, I kind of got them out of my system. But, I certainly would be open to them. Rocky Horror Show is a big favorite of mine.
‐‐ Guy Pearce

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.
‐‐ John Stamos

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
‐‐ Tammy Blanchard

I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.
‐‐ Libba Bray

I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.
‐‐ Jamie Hewlett

I grew up down in Florida, and in the Keys, there's this place called Sea Camp which was not unlike Space Camp, except you explored the sea. And so that kind of whetted my appetite for that. But then I ended up swimming in a lagoon full of Cassiopeia jellyfish, and that quickly quashed that desire to be a marine biologist.
‐‐ Joe Lo Truglio

I grew up during a time of peace, and my friends weren't joining the military - it wasn't something on my radar. But if you asked me whether I could go back and do it all over again now, and it meant I wouldn't go into filmmaking, there's a part of me that would have loved to try to be a Navy SEAL.
‐‐ Peter Berg

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.
‐‐ Justin Cronin

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.
‐‐ Helen Craig

I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
‐‐ Ted Cruz

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.
‐‐ Emily Ratajkowski

I grew up feeling Israel is very important, and I'm very supportive of Israel. At the same time, I think you can be really supportive of Israel and not look at it as a black-and-white situation.
‐‐ Darren Star

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
‐‐ Nicollette Sheridan

I grew up feeling people didn't look at skin color.
‐‐ Chris Froome

I grew up - for a while, the only show I could watch if I hadn't finished my homework was 'The Simpsons,' because I think my parents saw that there was some real-life lessons to take from that.
‐‐ Tyler Ritter

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
‐‐ Josh Turner

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.
‐‐ Debby Boone

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.
‐‐ Thelma Golden

I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke