I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
‐‐ Flea
I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
‐‐ Paula Pell
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie
I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a lot of options for me out there.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can be a real journey to accept what that bond is once you both mature into it. Because it's not always what you want. It's not always what you expect. It's not always what you imagined or hoped. But it's one of the most important things in the world.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
‐‐ Anthony Browne
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.
‐‐ Bob Seger
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
‐‐ Gary Cole
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
‐‐ John Lone
I grew up with artists.
‐‐ Jason Momoa
I grew up with baseball; I played in Little League and went to games with my dad. But I, as I grew up, became more of a basketball fanatic than a baseball one.
‐‐ Jonah Hill
I grew up with 'best-of' cassettes. My first Smiths record was 'Hatful Of Hollow,' and I had hits albums by Elton John and The Cars.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers
I grew up with Bond.
‐‐ Taron Egerton
I grew up with both cats and dogs. I love dogs. But I'd want a big dog, and I'd like to have a yard before I get one.
‐‐ Jake McDorman
I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.
‐‐ Boo Weekley
I grew up with British rock.
‐‐ Bryan Adams
I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.
‐‐ Tracy Spiridakos
I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.
‐‐ Troian Bellisario
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
‐‐ Allison Janney
I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.
‐‐ Jodi Benson
I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.
‐‐ Josephine de La Baume
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
‐‐ Diane Kruger
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley
I grew up with communism, and if you live through communism you don't love it.
‐‐ Eugene Shvidler
I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.
‐‐ Nyle DiMarco
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
‐‐ Nora Ephron
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
‐‐ Harry Knowles
I grew up with four T.V. channels. If you missed a show, you missed it. You gotta wait a week for the next one. I'd mail-order books: take a quarter, get an envelope, send off for it and wait until it arrived. I grew up waiting for things.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin
I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco
I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort
I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.
‐‐ Deborah Mailman
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi
I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood
I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins
I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
‐‐ Emma Roberts
I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.
‐‐ Harry Styles
I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
‐‐ Jason Moran
I grew up with lacrosse in my life because my dad played lacrosse all throughout college, so I grew up with the gear in my house - like the sticks, the helmet.
‐‐ Tyler Posey
I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.
‐‐ Neko Case
I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
‐‐ Mark Gatiss
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
‐‐ Ron Moody
I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
‐‐ Zarin Mehta
I grew up with my cousins, who were as close as brothers, and frankly, I didn't like what girls were expected to do. I liked horseback riding, playing football, going to rodeos. I wanted to be in jeans all the time, and I couldn't figure out why I was supposed to conform to a certain standard, so I didn't.
‐‐ S. E. Hinton
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.
‐‐ Danielle Steel
I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.
‐‐ Al Roker