I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

I'm not an engineer. I did not study engineering in school. But I was a super ambitious student growing up.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

Going on to train with Lecoq in Paris meant I discovered European theatre at a formative moment growing up.

There's something about strength that I really admire, that I failed to see a lot of when I was growing up.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

Living in London, drinking has just been a big part of growing up here. It's always been readily available.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another

Growing up, I absolutely loved skateboarding and dirt bike riding with my brother and the neighborhood kids.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

We want to create a kind of cycle where casual gamers are gradually growing up to become passionate players.

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.

I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

When youre asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

I was a lifeguard. It was my summer job growing up, and I never saved anyone. I never had to, thank goodness.

I had to grow up fast. I had a lot of obstacles to overcome. It made me a lot stronger, growing up like that.

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