All Quotes

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
‐‐ Chris Stapleton

I grew up in England, went to a nice public school, then didn't want to go to university, so I thought I would wander around. I did a season skiing, a bit of sailing, typical spoilt brat stuff. I ended up in the Caribbean. I was having a blast.
‐‐ Marc Koska

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.
‐‐ Russell Tovey

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.
‐‐ Rebecca De Mornay

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of 4th grade, I switched to American football and stopped playing competitively until college, when I played intramurals.
‐‐ Andrew Luck

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.
‐‐ John Cusack

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.
‐‐ Molly Crabapple

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.
‐‐ Neel Mukherjee

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.
‐‐ Daniel Tosh

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.
‐‐ Diplo

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
‐‐ Kate Upton

I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.
‐‐ Maulik Pancholy

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
‐‐ Diana Nyad

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

I grew up in Florida, which is the land of flea markets and swap meets. My grandmother loved to go these places, and she'd take me along.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
‐‐ Robert Stack

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.
‐‐ Gilda Radner

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.
‐‐ Carrie Preston

I grew up in Georgia, in a small town in the southwest corner of Georgia, actually, called Sylvester.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
‐‐ Daniel Breaker

I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember travelling in with him one day and the noise, the people, and the heat leaving me wide-eyed and grinning.
‐‐ Douglas Hodge

I grew up in Glen Ellyn, which is about 20 miles west of Chicago. I attended Glenbard South High School and University of Illinois. I didn't study acting until I moved to Los Angeles after college, but the fact that I was raised in the Chicago area set the stage for all of my comedic and acting sensibilities.
‐‐ Ryan McPartlin

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
‐‐ Yancy Butler

I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
‐‐ Aaron Ciechanover

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.
‐‐ Keith Sweat

I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.
‐‐ Richard Carmona

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
‐‐ Kelly Preston

I grew up in Hawaii so I was outside a lot playing in the water.
‐‐ Kelly Preston

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
‐‐ Spencer Johnson

I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
‐‐ Karolyn Grimes

I grew up in Hollywood. My father always told me that this is a job. These events are filled with people you work with; it's not like glam-schmooze time. That's why I only like events that celebrate people I have a connection to; otherwise, it's someone else's night, and I don't need to show up in a dress to try and steal their attention.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
‐‐ Tony Goldwyn

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
‐‐ Mireille Enos

I grew up in Indiana. I'm a late bloomer, very naive.
‐‐ Arija Bareikis

I grew up in Indiana. My first four years of elementary were in the gym where Coach Wooden went to high school.
‐‐ Steve Alford

I grew up in Inglewood, L.A., and South Central. I was always humbled by my situation. I would go on set and come home to my neighborhood and my block to my friends, and it would be a whole other story.
‐‐ Brandon Adams

I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.
‐‐ Eric Christian Olsen

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.
‐‐ Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
‐‐ Beth Henley

I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.
‐‐ Yitzhak Navon

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.
‐‐ Jennifer Lawrence