I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
‐‐ Sally Field
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
‐‐ Andy Gibb
I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
‐‐ Bonnie Bedelia
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich
I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.
‐‐ Jo Beverley
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
‐‐ Tony Kushner
I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones
I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'
‐‐ Tracy Letts
I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
‐‐ Abbi Glines
I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
‐‐ Nick Offerman
I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
‐‐ Mira Nair
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.
‐‐ Katie McGrath
I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.
‐‐ Colton Haynes
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
‐‐ Mary Meeker
I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
‐‐ Alek Wek
I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood
I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.
‐‐ Carol Bartz
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
‐‐ Leon Krier
I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth
I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.
‐‐ Robert Osborne
I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
‐‐ Thomas Peterffy
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
‐‐ Jan Koum
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie
I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.
‐‐ Paula Broadwell
I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.
‐‐ John Howard
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger
I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it!
‐‐ Cory Michael Smith
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
‐‐ Rachael Harris
I grew up in a Texas where people would say, 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.' Now, the reverse is happening. People are leaving the Republican Party because the Republican Party is going too far to the right in Texas. And that's a source of great potential support for Democrats.
‐‐ Julian Castro
I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin
I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.
‐‐ Michael Graves
I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.
‐‐ Kay Bailey Hutchison
I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.
‐‐ Kris Kristofferson
I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
‐‐ Jason Moore
I grew up in a time when women didn't really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny - because it's powerful; it's a threat.
‐‐ Lily Tomlin
I grew up in a total Pink Floyd house.
‐‐ Bill Hader
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
‐‐ David Mamet
I grew up in a town of 5,000, surrounded by cows and oil fields, but there was a lot of opportunity in my tiny little town.
‐‐ Michael Lomenda
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
‐‐ Jesse Plemons
I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.
‐‐ Robert Wilson
I grew up in a town with a great wrestling tradition. Then I was a team sport queen in high school; I played softball, volleyball, and soccer. Oh, and I also did ski racing.
‐‐ Aimee Mullins
I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.
‐‐ DJ Qualls
I grew up in a town without fathers.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick