All Quotes

I grew up playing in the woods.
‐‐ Nick Robinson

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.
‐‐ Brian Tee

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
‐‐ Rodney Atkins

I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
‐‐ Gautam Gambhir

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
‐‐ Ellen Page

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
‐‐ Cam Gigandet

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.
‐‐ Tiki Barber

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.
‐‐ Chris Carmack

I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
‐‐ David James Elliott

I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.
‐‐ Katori Hall

I grew up poor.
‐‐ Jessica Chastain

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
‐‐ Alana Stewart

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.
‐‐ Trey Songz

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
‐‐ Art Linkletter

I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
‐‐ Corey Taylor

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.
‐‐ Misty Copeland

I grew up Presbyterian, just a basic Protestant upbringing. There were years in my life when I would go to church every Sunday and to Sunday school. Then I just phased out of it.
‐‐ Andy Dick

I grew up pretty fast. I had more responsibility than most 9-year-olds, and I've always been independent.
‐‐ Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
‐‐ Cheri Oteri

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.
‐‐ Ang Lee

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence.
‐‐ Matisyahu

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.
‐‐ Seann William Scott

I grew up Protestant. My dad was a Charismatic pastor of the Families of God denomination. Often, we noticed that - during a lot of his evangelistic-type services - that some of the Amish and Old Order Mennonite couples would come and stand across the street from the church and look in the door.
‐‐ Beverly Lewis

I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing.
‐‐ Jimmie Johnson

I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
‐‐ Fanny Howe

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes.
‐‐ Ben Peek

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi.
‐‐ Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'
‐‐ Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

I grew up reading - and loving - stories by Andre Norton. I admired and idolised her from afar. Her stories helped shape my own internal world.
‐‐ Cecilia Dart-Thornton

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
‐‐ Cathleen Schine

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
‐‐ Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.
‐‐ Jake Epstein

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
‐‐ Alan Furst

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.
‐‐ Kevin Wilson

I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me.
‐‐ Chantal Akerman

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
‐‐ Leighton Meester

I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
‐‐ Kim Harrison

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
‐‐ Jackson Browne

I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
‐‐ Nnedi Okorafor

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.
‐‐ Daniel Silva

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

I grew up reading the newspapers, mostly the sports section. I was a wrestler and would check to see if I was ranked.
‐‐ Michael Pena

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.
‐‐ Colson Whitehead