All Quotes

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

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.
‐‐ John Logan

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
‐‐ Frank Miller

I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts. I really did have to walk home six miles through the snow, like your grandparents used to complain.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
‐‐ Edward Norton

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my parents moved to Winnetka, Illinois, an upper class, WASPy suburb where Jews - as well as Blacks and Catholics - were unwelcome on many blocks. I suffered the spiritual equivalent of whiplash.
‐‐ Scott Turow

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.
‐‐ George A. Romero

I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason

I grew up on the Roger Moore and Sean Connery Bond movies, so the DNA of my spies is extremely ridiculous and goofy.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
‐‐ Q-Tip

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
‐‐ Yoenis Cespedes

I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its proximity to the mountains - Christchurch is two hours distant from the worn saddle of Arthur's Pass, the mountain village that was and is my father's spiritual touchstone, his chapel and cathedral in the wild.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton

I grew up on the south side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare. My mother and sister and I used to live with my grandparents and various cousins. We shared a two-bedroom tenement, and the three of us slept in one of those bedrooms and had a set of bunk beds.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.
‐‐ Craig Robinson

I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.
‐‐ LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.
‐‐ Jeremy Piven

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.
‐‐ Steve Clevenger

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
‐‐ Martina Hingis

I grew up on the very human side of Christianity, so messages in the household I grew up in were about peace, love, and being understanding of everybody, which I think is quite cool.
‐‐ Tom Ellis

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.
‐‐ Big Sean

I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.
‐‐ Jimmie Johnson

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.
‐‐ Sam Phillips

I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins

I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
‐‐ Nat Faxon

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.
‐‐ Jim Coleman

I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
‐‐ I. King Jordan

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.
‐‐ Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.
‐‐ Angela Kinsey

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.
‐‐ Mike Shinoda

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
‐‐ Kara Walker

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together.
‐‐ Tessa Thompson

I grew up partially in Switzerland but mostly in Australia. I lived in Kakadu for a short time - it's an Aboriginal community. My best friend growing up was Aboriginal. She taught me so much.
‐‐ Isabel Lucas

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'
‐‐ Lucy Hale

I grew up performing in theatre.
‐‐ Valorie Curry

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.
‐‐ Flavor Flav

I grew up playing basketball and eating hot dogs on the corner.
‐‐ Prince Royce

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.
‐‐ Janina Gavankar

I grew up playing every sport.
‐‐ Paula Creamer

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

I grew up playing football and baseball.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

I grew up playing football since the day I could walk; some of my greatest memories of childhood are playing touch football in all kinds of weather with my best friends. That's a part of the American experience that no corporation can destroy.
‐‐ Greg Graffin

I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
‐‐ Roger Craig Smith

I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
‐‐ Taylor Cole

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.
‐‐ Diego Klattenhoff

I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
‐‐ Aaron Douglas

I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
‐‐ Eric Clapton