All Quotes

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

I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.
‐‐ Maggie Lawson

I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It's a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson.
‐‐ Grace Hightower

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
‐‐ Robert MacNeil

I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.
‐‐ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
‐‐ Zoe Kazan

I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.
‐‐ Cassandra Clare

I grew up in L.A., and it's one of those cities designed around cars instead of the people that live there. I spent hours every day stuck in traffic, having the experience of looking around and seeing one person in every car.
‐‐ Logan Green

I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there.
‐‐ Blake Lively

I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
‐‐ Banks

I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
‐‐ Malcolm David Kelley

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing.
‐‐ Jay Hernandez

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.
‐‐ Andrew J. Feustel

I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.
‐‐ Mike Nesbitt

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.
‐‐ Robert Webb

I grew up in London, and that's where I spend most of my time. Unless I have a really good reason not to be, I'll always be in London.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.
‐‐ Ashley Madekwe

I grew up in London, Ontario, and moved to Toronto when I was 22 or 23.
‐‐ Bryan Lee O'Malley

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
‐‐ Denise Mina

I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.
‐‐ Drew Goddard

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
‐‐ Berkeley Breathed

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.'
‐‐ John Landis

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.
‐‐ Greg van Eekhout

I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.
‐‐ Cody Horn

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.
‐‐ Bonnie Raitt

I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, particularly, of America's national treasure, National Public Radio.
‐‐ Leila Janah