All Quotes

I grew up on a tiny little island.
‐‐ Samantha Barks

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
‐‐ Chris Roberson

I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.
‐‐ Darren Shan

I grew up on an organic farm in England. And I was a vegetarian from an early age - not just for health, not for the environment - just because I didn't believe in killing animals to eat them.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.
‐‐ Carre Otis

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
‐‐ Ramon Rodriguez

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
‐‐ Charlize Theron

I grew up on black sand greens. The best tees were old, dry cowpies, believe it or not.
‐‐ Billy Casper

I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.
‐‐ Andrea Barrett

I grew up on certain movies, particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.
‐‐ Johanna Braddy

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!
‐‐ Brian Tee

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
‐‐ Rachel Griffiths

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
‐‐ George A. Romero

I grew up on Disney movies and, as a kid, I always liked the villains.
‐‐ Jonathan Freeman

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
‐‐ Harland Williams

I grew up on film scores and scores from films.
‐‐ Skitch Henderson

I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.
‐‐ Dominik Garcia-Lorido

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
‐‐ Alice Englert

I grew up on films.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam, then moved on to NFL 2K on Dreamcast. The game I really loved was Virtua Tennis.
‐‐ Chris Paul

I grew up on genre. If it had a dragon on the cover, I was interested. But horror, especially, really gripped me in its bony fist.
‐‐ Benjamin Percy

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

I grew up on hip-hop. I grew up on Run-D.M.C., Whodini, LL when I was in college, so I'm more of a music fan. I probably have the most eclectic collection of music in my Grand Cherokee. Literally, in a span of a week, I'll go from 2Pac to Boyz II Men to Sister Hazel, right down to West Side Story or the Wiz. I love show tunes.
‐‐ Stuart Scott

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.
‐‐ Drake Bell

I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
‐‐ Jenny Lewis

I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
‐‐ Tania Raymonde

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I grew up on movie sets and traveling the world with my pops.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.
‐‐ Jake Gyllenhaal

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!
‐‐ Marisa Tomei

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.
‐‐ Katharine Isabelle

I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.
‐‐ Drake Bell

I grew up on particular movies that said something to me as a kid from Missouri, movies that showed me places I'd yet traveled, or different cultures, or explained something, or said something in a better way than I could ever say. I wanted to find the movies like that. It was less about a career than finding the films I wanted to see.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I grew up on popular music, and rock-and-roll expresses very deep feelings of those people who don't have a lot.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I grew up on radio, not TV.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

I grew up on red meat and corn. But I don't eat like that anymore.
‐‐ Terry Farrell

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
‐‐ Cecily Strong

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
‐‐ Kim Basinger

I grew up on Stephen King, reading the books. I love the small town, 1950s feel to it, that nostalgia, and that old America. What happens when something weird starts happening to all these people, something other-worldly, something demonic?
‐‐ Alexander Koch

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.
‐‐ Phoebe Tonkin

I grew up on the beach, so I'm really comfortable in a bathing suit, playing volleyball, running around.
‐‐ Gigi Hadid

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.
‐‐ Bo Derek